It may have been, but it 'had been out of use for a long period, [and] has been rejuvenated in recent years' and with a subtly different meaning, too.
So I still claim that, in modern use at least, it's an example of verbing.
> There's no gun to your head to pay taxes
Tried resisting arrest lately? Refuse to pay your taxes, refuse to go to jail, and you'll see the guns soon enough.
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"