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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Exact \Ex*act"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exacted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Exacting}.] [From L. exactus, p. p. of exigere; or fr. LL.
     exactare: cf. OF. exacter. See {Exact}, a.]
     To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a
     right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel
     to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward
     when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one
     subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience,
     etc., from or of some one.
  
           He said into them, Exact no more than that which is
           appointed you.                           --Luke. iii.
                                                    13.
  
           Years of servise past From grateful souls exact reward
           at last                                  --Dryden.
  
           My designs Exact me in another place.    --Massinger.

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