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Coarcted vs Coacted - What's the difference?

coarcted | coacted |

As verbs the difference between coarcted and coacted

is that coarcted is past tense of coarct while coacted is past tense of coact.

coarcted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (coarct)

    • coarct

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To coarctate.
  • * 1995 , Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age , Bantam Books 2008, page 35:
    • All the other thetes, coarcted into the tacky little claves belonging to their synthetic phyles,
    a coarcted aorta

    References

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    coacted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (coact)

    • coact

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the participle stem of (etyl) coagere.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To compel, constrain, force.
  • * Foxe
    • The faith and service of Christ ought to be voluntary and not coacted .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Forced, constrained, done under compulsion.
  • *, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.244:
    • too much solitarinessis either coact , enforced, or else voluntary.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (coact)
  • (rare) To work together.
    • Synonyms
    * to cooperate

    References

    *" coact" in the Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2007.