exacted

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Seven years thou'wert lent to me, and I thee pay,    Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2012

Whatever an estate does beyond this afford,       Is not a rent paid to the Lord; But is a tax illegal and unjust, Exacted from it by the tyrant lust.

From Cowley's Essays by Cowley, Abraham

With a sad Visage he made his Adieus, and he Exacted her Pledge to Write to him Occasionally.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney