enforce

1. (obsolete, transitive) To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc.obsoletetransitive

2. (obsolete, transitive) To intensify, make stronger, add force to.obsoletetransitive

3. (obsolete, reflexive) To exert oneself, to try hard.Examples: "I pray you enforce youreselff at that justis that ye may be beste, for my love."obsoletereflexive

4. (obsolete) To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force.Examples: "Sweete prince I come, these these thy amorous lines, / Might haue enforst me to haue swum from France, / And like Leander gaspt vpon the sande, / So thou wouldst smile and take me in thy armes."; "Uladislaus the Second, King of Poland, and Peter Dunnius, Earl of Shrine[…]had been hunting late, and were enforced to lodge in a poor cottage."; "In a few minutes I was stealthily groping my way down my own staircase, with a box of matches in my hand, enforced by scientific curiosity, but none the less armed with a stick."obsolete

5. (obsolete) To make or gain by force; to force.Examples: "to enforce a passage"; "Ne shame he thought to shonne so hideous might, / The ydle stroke, enforcing furious way, / Missing the marke of his misaymed sight / Did fall to ground […]"obsolete

6. (obsolete) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.Examples: "Auster and Aquilon with winged Steeds All ſweating, tilt about the watery heauens, With ſhiuering ſpeares enforcing thunderclaps, And from their ſhields ſtrike flames of lightening"; "If they’ll do neither, we will come to them, / And make them skirr away, as swift as stones / Enforced from the old Assyrian slings:"obsolete