Both Uses of
coerce
in
Moby Dick
- Starbuck's body and Starbuck's coerced will were Ahab's, so long as Ahab kept his magnet at Starbuck's brain; still he knew that for all this the chief mate, in his soul, abhorred his captain's quest, and could he, would joyfully disintegrate himself from it, or even frustrate it.†
Chpt 46-48
- Is this the still militant old man, standing at the corners of the three kingdoms, on all hands coercing alms of beggars?†
Chpt 88-90 *
Definition:
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(coerce) force to do -- possibly by physical, moral or intellectual means