Verb

(enforc)

(obsolete) To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc.

(obsolete) To intensify, make stronger, add force to.

(obsolete, reflexive) To exert oneself, to try hard.

*, Bk.VII:

*:I pray you enforce youreselff at that justis that ye may be beste, for my love.

To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize.

:The victim was able to enforce his evidence against the alleged perpetrator.

(archaic) To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force.

*, I.2.4.iv:

*:Uladislaus the Second, King of Poland, and Peter Dunnius, Earl of Shrinehad been hunting late, and were enforced to lodge in a poor cottage.

*1899 , E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross, Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.'', Great Uncle McCarthy :

*:In a few minutes I was stealthily groping my way down my own staircase, with a box of matches in my hand, enforced by scientific curiosity, but none the less armed with a stick.

To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.

:The police are there to enforce the law.

(obsolete) To make or gain by force; to force.

:to enforce a passage

*Spenser

*:enforcing furious way

(obsolete) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.

*Shakespeare

*:As swift as stones / Enforced from the old Assyrian slings.

(obsolete) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy.

:to enforce arguments or requests

*Burke

*:enforcing sentiment of the thrust humanity

(obsolete) To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.

*Shakespeare

*:Enforce him with his envy to the people.

To prove; to evince.

:(Hooker)

Verb

(secur)

To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.

* Dryden

I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.

To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against'' or ''from'', or formerly with ''of .

to secure''' a creditor against loss; to '''secure a debt by a mortgage

* T. Dick

It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.

To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.

to secure''' a prisoner; to '''secure a door, or the hatches of a ship

To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

to secure an estate

* 2014 , Jamie Jackson, " Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian , 26 August 2014:

With the Argentinian secured United will step up their attempt to sign a midfielder and, possibly, a defender in the closing days of the transfer window. Juventus’s Arturo Vidal, Milan’s Nigel de Jong and Ajax’s Daley Blind, who is also a left-sided defensive player, are potential targets.

"[Captain] was able to secure some good photographs of the fortress." (Flight, 1911, p. 766)

* , chapter=3

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