Distrain vs Distringas - What's the difference?
distrain | distringas |
(label) To squeeze, press, embrace; to constrain, oppress.
*, VII:
*:But when he heard her answeres loth, he knew / Some secret sorrow did her heart distraine .
* 1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XII, xii:
*:Thus spake the Prince, and gently 'gan distrain / Now him, now her, between his friendly arms.
To force (someone) to do something by seizing their property.
To seize somebody's property in place of, or to force, payment of a debt.
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(label) To pull off, tear apart.
*, II.xii:
*:For that same net so cunningly was wound, / That neither guile, nor force might it distraine .
(legal) A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him.
(Webster 1913)
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