Citations:dragoon

Verb

 * 1)  To subject (a Huguenot) to the dragonnades.
 * 2) Chiefly followed by into: to force (someone) into doing something through harassment and intimidation; to coerce.
 * 3) * 1858 — "The President's Prophecy of Peace." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2. Number 1. Page 114.
 * To maintain the supremacy of this usurpation, and the Draconic laws made under it, Mr. Pierce poured in the squadrons of the Republic, to dragoon the rebellious freemen into obedience to what their souls abhorred, and what their reason told them was of no more just binding force upon them than an edict of the Emperor of China.
 * 1) * 1858 — "The President's Prophecy of Peace." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2. Number 1. Page 114.
 * To maintain the supremacy of this usurpation, and the Draconic laws made under it, Mr. Pierce poured in the squadrons of the Republic, to dragoon the rebellious freemen into obedience to what their souls abhorred, and what their reason told them was of no more just binding force upon them than an edict of the Emperor of China.