Coarcts vs Coacts - What's the difference?
coarcts | coacts |
(coarct)
To coarctate.
* 1995 , Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age , Bantam Books 2008, page 35:
(coact)
(obsolete) To compel, constrain, force.
* Foxe
(obsolete) Forced, constrained, done under compulsion.
*, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.244:
(rare) To work together.
As verbs the difference between coarcts and coacts
is that coarcts is (coarct) while coacts is (coact).coarcts
English
Verb
(head)coarct
English
Verb
(en verb)- All the other thetes, coarcted into the tacky little claves belonging to their synthetic phyles,
- a coarcted aorta
References
*coacts
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*coact
English
Etymology 1
From the participle stem of (etyl) coagere.Verb
(en verb)- The faith and service of Christ ought to be voluntary and not coacted .
Adjective
(en adjective)- too much solitarinessis either coact , enforced, or else voluntary.
Etymology 2
From .Verb
(coact)Synonyms
* to cooperateReferences
*"coact" in the Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2007.