Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
distrain .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She and Jacob had Judah jailed and his possessions distrained because he had married a Portuguese Jewish woman in Pesaro.
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His London life was equally disastrous. he made a start with his stock-in-trade, was constantly on the move, in dread of being distrained for rent; half starved, and in a sorry plight.
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His goods are distrained, his children are crying with cold and hunger, and the very bed on which his sick wife is lying, is dragged from beneath her.
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My creditors have distrained on my goods, and here are others again, who demand security for their interest.
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Drogo distrained on my father two years before, when he was in his last illness and I had all to do, our fields and Bosiet's harvest labour, and we ended in debt.
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Drogo distrained on my father two years before, when he was in his last illness and I had all to do, our fields and Bosiet's harvest labour, and we ended in debt.
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But I'm sorry for those who have had goods distrained.
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Caught between these two tides, Torold passed a miserable day of fretting and waiting; but it brought him at last well beyond Willem Ten Heyt's tight and brutal guard-post, which by then had amassed a great quantity of goods distrained from agitated travellers, and a dozen sound horses.
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My creditors have distrained on my goods, and here are others again, who demand security for their interest.
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A debtor's sureties shall not be distrained upon so long as the debtor himself can discharge his debt.
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