EXACT'OR, n. One who exacts; an officer who collects tribute, taxes or customs.
I will make thine officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. Isa 60.
1. An extortioner; one who compels another to pay more than is legal or reasonable; one who demands something without pity or regard to justice.
2. He that demands by authority; as an exactor of oaths.
3. One who is unreasonably severe in his injunctions or demands.
