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*1. Constraint, restraint, compulsion; the [[application]] of [[force]] to [[control]] the [[action]] of a [[Free Will|voluntary]] [[agent]].
 
*1. Constraint, restraint, compulsion; the [[application]] of [[force]] to [[control]] the [[action]] of a [[Free Will|voluntary]] [[agent]].
 
:b. Forcible restraint of (action).
 
:b. Forcible restraint of (action).
:c. The enforcement or [[execution]] of an ecclesiastical sentence. Obs.
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:c. The enforcement or [[execution]] of an ecclesiastical sentence.  
    
*2. [[Government]] by [[force]], as [[opposed]] to that which rests upon the will of the [[community]] governed; the employment of force to suppress [[political]] disaffection and the disorder to which it gives rise. In modern [[English]] [[politics]], chiefly applied to the suspension of ordinary constitutional liberties, and other exceptional legislation, from time to time applied to Ireland.  
 
*2. [[Government]] by [[force]], as [[opposed]] to that which rests upon the will of the [[community]] governed; the employment of force to suppress [[political]] disaffection and the disorder to which it gives rise. In modern [[English]] [[politics]], chiefly applied to the suspension of ordinary constitutional liberties, and other exceptional legislation, from time to time applied to Ireland.