forcible entry

Law : A violent taking or entering into houses or lands. For the difference between forcible and cogent , See COGENT. +forcible-feeble, a . & 8. [From Feeble , a charac ter in Shakespeare's Henry IV ., Pt . II ., whom Falstaff derisively describes as forcible .] 1. As adj.: Seemingly forcible, vigorous, but in reality weak and feeble. "Epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible -feeble school."- North British Review. 2. As subst .: One who strives to appear forcible or vigorous, but is in reality weak and feeble. "Italics, that last resource of the forcible - feebles ."-Disraeli. förç-I-ble-ne , s. [Eng. forcible; -ne .] The quality or state of being forcible. förç-1-bly, adv. [ Eng.forcib ( le ); -ly.] 1. With force or strength; strongly, powerfully; cogently. "Never did any scene, like these 'streams of stones," so forcibly convey to my mind the idea of a convulsion of which, in historical records, we might in vain seek for any counterpart."- Darwin : Voyage Round the World (1870), ch. ix., p. 198. 2. By force or violence. "Forcibly drawn from many a close rece ." Cowper: Charity, 529. förç'-Ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [FORCE (1), v.] A. & B. As pr . par . & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: 1. Ord. Lang.: The act of using force or violence; force, compulsion. "Such forcings ever end in hates and ruines." Beaum. & Flet.: The Pilgrim, i. 1. 2. Hort .: The act or proce of causing plants, flowers, fruit, ., to come to maturity before the natural or ordinary time by means of artificial heat.