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The act of coercing someone into government service
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impressment
Word definitions for impressment in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of seizing for public use; impress into public service.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1796, "act of impressing into service," from impress (v.) + -ment .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Impressment by the Royal Navy in Nova Scotia happened primarily during the American Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars . Guard boats patrolled Halifax harbour day and night and they boarded all incoming and outgoing vessels. The Navy always struggled with ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of coercing someone into government service [syn: impress ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impressment \Im*press"ment\ ([i^]m*pr[e^]s"ment), n. The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors. The great scandal of our naval service -- impressment -- ...
Usage examples of impressment.
He opened it with much impressment, assumed, of course, and showed a great bundle of white flowers.
With the impressment riots against the British still remembered, impressment of seamen by the American navy was taking place by 1779.
The wars and the Occupation had left a plentiful harvest of orphans behind them, and many of them gravitated to the waterfront, eking out what miserable existence they could while trying to avoid the impressment gangsĀ.
In your day French depredations: in mine English, and the Berlin and Milan decrees: now the English orders of council, and the piracies they authorise: when these shall be over, it will be the impressment of our seamen, or something else: and so we have gone on, and so we shall go on, puzzled and prospering beyond example in the history of man.
There was no Dutourd: nor could his servant be found though the ship, the prize and the schooner-rigged launch towing astern were searched through and through with all the skill of those accustomed to hiding goods from customs officers and men from impressment.