URGE

v.

8 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight. Pope.

2.
v.

To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. My brother never Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it. Shak.

3.
v.

To provoke; to exasperate. [R.] Urge not my father's anger. Shak.

4.
v.

To press hard upon; to follow closely Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave. Pope.

5.
v.

To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case.

6.
v.

To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.

7.
v.

To press onward or forward. [R.]

8.
v.

To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

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