Definition of "exacted" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of exact. (verb)

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• "The retribution exacted from the Anti-Semite that day came in the form of a motherly chiding."
• "Mr. Harris is the only foreigner who was ever permitted to enter the palace of the Tycoon of Japan without the degrading forms of submission formerly exacted from the Dutch."
• "September 4th Pétion's secretary came to the Tower to remit to the king a sum of two thousand francs in assignats; he exacted from the king a receipt."