Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Dragoon \Dra*goon"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dragooned}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Dragooning}.]
   1. To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to
      persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.

   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.