Definition of "forc'd" [forc'd]

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

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• "We have trod into rags the old carpet which you remember, and I have been forc'd sadly against my will, to buy another and not meeting with an old one, I have purchased one above our rank and deserts, and I expect the sight of it will give me the gripe all the winter."
• "Words, and bad him get him gone out of the Room, lest a Fire − shovel forc'd him out with Blood about his Ears."
• "But when, false Wretch! he his forc'd Kindness pay'd,"