enforce

verb12

1. •
   To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.

   • The police are there to enforce the law.
2. •
   To apply a rule or enforcement action to a person or user account.

   • This will give us the tools we need to enforce accounts like these.
3. •
   To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize.

   • The victim was able to enforce his evidence against the alleged perpetrator.
4. •
   (no longer used) To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc.
5. •
   (no longer used) To intensify, make stronger, add force to.
6. •
   (no longer used) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to energize.

   • to enforce arguments or requests
7. •
   (no longer used) To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.

   • In this point charge him home, that he affects / Tyrannical power: if he evade us there, / Enforce him with his envy to the people, / And that the spoil got on the Antiates / Was ne’er distributed. — 1608
8. •
   (no longer used) To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force.

   • Sweete prince I come, these these thy amorous lines, / Might haue enforst me to haue swum from France, / And like Leander gaspt vpon the sande, / So thou wouldst smile and take me in thy armes. — 1594
9. •
   (no longer used) To make or gain by force; to force.

   • Ne shame he thought to shonne so hideous might, / The ydle stroke, enforcing furious way, / Missing the marke of his misaymed sight / Did fall to ground […] — 1590
10. •
    [with oneself] (no longer used) To exert oneself, to try hard.

    • I pray you enforce youreselff at that justis that ye may be beste, for my love. — 1889
11. •
    (no longer used) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.

    • Auster and Aquilon with winged Steeds All sweating, tilt about the watery heauens, With shiuering speares enforcing thunderclaps, And from their shields strike flames of lightening — 1587
12. •
    (no longer used) To prove; to evince.