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One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate.

Same as Deforcement, n.

riage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii. "from the bond of matrimony."

Capable of being divorced.

A person divorced.

Incapable of being divorced or separated; free from divorce.

Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation. Let him write her a divorcement. Deut. xxiv. 1. The divorcement of our written from our spoken language. R. Morris.

The person or cause that produces or effects a divorce. Drummond.

Divorceable. Milton.

Having power to divorce; tending to divorce. "This divorcive law." Milton.

The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.

The jamb or sidepiece of a door. Ex. xii. 22 (Douay version).

A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.

To force; to constrain; to compel to yield. [Obs.] Spenser.

To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands. Inward joy enforced my heart to smile. Shak.

Capable of being enforced.

Compelled; forced; not voluntary. "Enforced wrong." "Enforced smiles." Shak. -- En*for"ced*ly, adv. Shak.

The act of enforcing; compulsion. He that contendeth against these enforcements may easily master or resist them. Sir W. Raleigh. Confess 't was hers, and by what rough enforcement You got it from her. Shak.

One who enforces.

That may be enforced.