mulct

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Vide Pennant's Tour in Wales of 1773, pp. 273, 274 82] This mulct is frequently in the Salic law called "fred," that is, peace; because it was paid to the king or state, as guardians of the public peace 83] A brief account of the civil economy of the Germans will here be useful.

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  1. noun A penalty such as a fine.
  2. transitive verb To penalize by fining or demanding forfeiture.
  3. transitive verb To acquire by trickery or deception.
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  • A peace with Poland soon followed that Defeat of Tannenberg; humiliating peace, with mulct in money, and slightly in territory, attached to it. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • 'You ought to be informed that the forfeits began with the year, and that every night of non-attendance incurs the mulct of three-pence, that is, nine pence a week.' —  Life Of Johnson
  • Vide Pennant's Tour in Wales of 1773, pp. 273, 274 82] This mulct is frequently in the Salic law called "fred," that is, peace; because it was paid to the king or state, as guardians of the public peace 83] A brief account of the civil economy of the Germans will here be useful. —  The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus
  • So I got up and went with him, and by the way he began to observe to me some unkind dealing of mine to him a weeke or two since at the table, like a coxcomb, when I answered him pretty freely that I would not think myself to owe any man the service to do this or that because they would have it so (it was about taking of a mulct upon a purser for not keeping guard at Chatham when I was there), so he talked and I talked and let fall the discourse without giving or receiving any great satisfaction, and so to other discourse, but I shall know him still for a false knave. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Nov/Dec 1663
  • To mulct Sir Slosson's pelf; —  Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. From Middle English multen, to fine, from Latin multāre, mulctāre, from mulcta, fine.

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  1. = Old French multe = Spanish Portuguese Italian multa, from Latin mulcta, multa, a fine, penalty; a word of Sabine origin.
  2. = Old French multer, French mulcter = Spanish Portuguese multar = Italian multare, from Latin multare, mulctare, fine, punish, from multa, mulcta, a fine: see mulct, n.
 

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