Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Labor; effort; toil.
- n. The exaction of forced service; impressment to labor or service.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete exaction of forced service; compulsion
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Exaction of forced service; compulsion.
Etymologies
- Latin angariatio, from Latin angaria service to a lord, villenage, from Ancient Greek (a Persian word), a courier for carrying royal dispatches. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“_angaria_, _angariare_, in medieval Latin, and the rare English derivatives "angariate," "angariation," came to mean any service which was forcibly or unjustly demanded, and oppression in general.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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