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exactor

Webster 1828

EXACT'OR, noun One who exacts; an officer who collects tribute, taxes or customs.I will make thine officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. Isaiah 60:17.1. An extortioner; one who compels another to pay more than is legal or reasonable; one who demands something without pity or regard to justice.2. He that demands by authority; as an exactor of oaths.3. One who is unreasonably severe in his injunctions or demands