urge

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Urged p. pr. & vb. n. Urging ] [ L. urgere; akin to E. wreak. See Wreak, v. t. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. [ 1913 Webster ]

My brother never
Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To provoke; to exasperate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Urge not my father's anger. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To press hard upon; to follow closely [ 1913 Webster ]

Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To animate; incite; impel; instigate; stimulate; encourage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Urgency. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. urgence. ] The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. urgens, p. pr. of urgere: cf. F. urgent. See Urge. ] Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important. “The urgent hour.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste. Ex. xii. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an urgent manner. [ 1913 Webster ]