enfolding estivation

Bot.: A modification of imbricate estivation, in which one leaf infolds or entirely incloses another. ( Thomé .) en-för çe, *en-forse, v. t. & i. [O. Fr. enforcer; Fr. enforcir, from en and force.] A. Transitive : *1. To give strength to; to strengthen. "Fear gave her winges, and rage enforst my flight." Spenser: F. Q., II. iv. 32. *2. To force, to compel, to constrain. "Inward joy enforced my heart to smile." Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1. 2. *3. To put in motion or action with violence. "As swift as stones Enforced from the old A yrian slings." Shakesp.: Henry V., iv. 7. *4. To make or gain by force; to force. "The idle stroke, enforcing furious way, Mi ing the mark of his misaimed sight, Did fall to ground." Spenser: F. Q. , I. viii. 8. 45. To cause or provoke irresistibly; to compel. "Drops enforced by sympathy." Shakesp.: Rape of Lucrece, 1,229. *6. To open with force or violence; to force. "The locks Each one by him enforced retires his ward." Shakesp.: Rape of Lucrece, 303. *7. To violate, to ravish. "She was enforced, stained, and deflowered." Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus, v. 8. *8. To urge, to ply hard. "If he evade us there, Enforce him with his envy to the people." Shakesp.: Coriolanus , iii. 3. *9. To demand with importunity. " Enforce the present execution Of what we chance to sentence." Shakesp.: Coriolanus, iii. 3. 10. To urge, to give force to, to impre , to lay much stre upon. "To avoid all appearance of disaffection, I have taken care to enforce loyalty by an invincible argument." Swift . IMG:content-0988.png:[blocks in formation] "Which laws in such case we must obey, unle there be reason shewed, which may nece arily enforce that the law of reason, or of God, doth enjoin the contrary." Hooker : Eccles. Polity. *ěn-för'çe, s . [ENFORCE, verb ] Force, power, strength. "He now defies thee thrice to single fight, As a petty enterprise of small enforce." Milton: Samson Agonistes , 1,223.