• (British) IPA: /kəʊˈakt/

coact (coacts, present participle coacting; past and past participle coacted)

1. (obsolete) To compel, constrain, force.

   • The faith and service of Christ ought to be voluntary and not coacted.

coact

1. (obsolete) Forced, constrained, done under compulsion.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:

     , vol.I, New York, 2001, p.244:

     too much solitariness […] is either coact, enforced, or else voluntary.

coact (coacts, present participle coacting; past and past participle coacted)

1. (rare) To work together.

• to cooperate