Dragooned

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dragoon \Dra*goon"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dragooned}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Dragooning}.]
     1. To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to
        persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
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     2. To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to
        persecute.
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              The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they
              can be dragooned to nothing.          --Price.
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              Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying
              to dragoon his subjects to heaven.    --Macaulay.
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