Coacts vs Coasts - What's the difference?
coacts | coasts |
(coact)
(obsolete) To compel, constrain, force.
* Foxe
(obsolete) Forced, constrained, done under compulsion.
*, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.244:
(rare) To work together.
(coast)
As verbs the difference between coacts and coasts
is that coacts is third-person singular of coact while coasts is third-person singular of coast.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.
coasts
English
Verb
(head)- He just coasts through life like it doesn't mean a thing.