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adigere

adigere [CL] , to drive, thrust, impel (to or into). b to tack on. c to bind (fig.). d to extort. e to impose, administer (an oath). ense ‥ per utraque latera adacto Aldh. VirgP 52; turbas removeri jussit adactas Frith. 873; ferro visceribus ejus secretius adacto Chr. Rams. 141.  b prologos aliquorum adactos inveniet Diceto Chr. prol. 19.  c ut ‥ [Willelmus I] omnes liberos homines ‥ sue fidelitati sacramento ~eret W. Malm. GR III 258.  d quia verbum ab eis extorquere non potuerunt verbis, telis ~ere responsa parabant Map NC IV 13.  e s1164 ne omnis controversia de fidei transgressione sit in foro ecclesiastico, sed tantum de fide adacta pro nuptiis ‥ vel hujusmodi W. Fitzst. Thom. 35; s1194 licet ex parte regis ‥ ad hoc observandum fuerit jusjurandum †adauctum [l. adactum] Diceto YH 113.

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