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Määritelmät
Verbit
- (obsolete) To squeeze, press, embrace; to constrain, oppress.
- (legal, transitive, obsolete) To force (someone) to do something by seizing their property.
- (legal, intransitive) To seize somebody's property in place of, or to force, payment of a debt.
- (obsolete) To pull off, tear apart.
Esimerkit
- But when he heard her answeres loth, he knew / Some secret sorrow did her heart distraine.
- Thus spake the Prince, and gently 'gan distrain / Now him, now her, between his friendly arms.
- to distrain a person by his goods and chattels
- For that same net so cunningly was wound, / That neither guile, nor force might it distraine.
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