To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by
from or
of before the one subjected to exaction;
as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.
“He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.”
— Luke. iii. 13.
“Years of servise past
From grateful souls
exact reward at last”
— Dryden.
“My designs
Exact me in another place.”
— Massinger.