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Impressment
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Impressment'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/i/impressment.html. 1828.