Ray put a knife to one male victimsthroat, brandished a knife and threatened to dismember another male victim, grabbed a third male victim around the neck until he passed out, slapped a female victim and grabbed another female victim by her head before shoving her to the ground, after enduring Rays abuse, seven of his victims falsely confessed to having harmed or attempted to harm Ray. Ray, who sometimes recorded these false confessions, then used these false confessions to extort money from his victims. Ray put a knife to one male victims throat, brandished a knife and threatened to dismember another male victim, grabbed a third male victim around the neck until he passed out, slapped a female victim and grabbed another female victim by her head before shoving her to the ground, after enduring Rays abuse, seven of his victims falsely confessed to having harmed or attempted to harm Ray. To whom they never gave any penny of entertainment, but let them feed upon the countries, and extort upon all men where they come.īefore they did extort and oppress the people only by colour of a lewd custom, they did afterwards use the same extortions by warrant. The ever-burning lamps from thence it brought.Īre my chests fill’d up with extorted gold? That to the house of heav’nly gods it raught,Īnd with extorted power and borrow’d strength, His tail was stretch’d out in wond’rous length, My earnest desires, not any doubts of your goodness, but my real concern for your welfare, extort this from me. With suppliant knee, and deify his pow’r. That glory never shall his wrath or might Where we have liv’d and so extort from us

Of Cloten’s death may drive us to a render, To draw by force to force away to wrest to wring from one. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Įtymology: extorqueo, extortus, Latin.

Extort root tor meaning