dragoon
noun
(especially formerly) a European cavalryman of a heavily armed troop.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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For his sake she has learned all the womanly little accomplishments which Mrs. Kittridge has dragooned into Sally.
From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe