DRAGOON (2)

dragoon (2). Dragoon, v.t. to enslave with solders, to force

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Dra‐goon″, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dragooned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dragooning.] 1. 1. To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
2. 2. To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.
The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they can be dragooned to nothing. Price. Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying to dragoon his subjects to heaven. Macaulay.