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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 exacted
 (pp.)索求

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ex·act, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exacted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exacting.]  To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.
    He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.   --Luke. iii. 13.
 Years of servise past
 From grateful souls exact reward at last   --Dryden.
 My designs
 Exact me in another place.   --Massinger.