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Mulct :: Mulct (n.) A blemish or defect.

Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life..

Mulct :: Mulct (v. t.) To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or forfeiture, esp. a pecuniary fine; to fine..

Mulctary :: Mulctary (a.) Alt. of Mulctuar.

Amercement :: Amercement (n.) The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.].

Mulct :: Mulct (n.) A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty..

Fine :: Fine (n.) A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct..

Fightwite :: Fightwite (n.) A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.

Scot :: Scot (n.) A portion of money assessed or paid; a tax or contribution; a mulct; a fine; a shot.

Ban :: Ban (n.) A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes..

Doom :: Doom (v. t.) To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine..

Sconce :: Sconce (p. p.) A poll tax; a mulct or fine.

Fine :: Fine (n.) To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars..

Sconce :: Sconce (v. t.) To mulct; to fine.

Mulcting :: Mulcting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mulc.

Mulct :: Mulct (v. t.) Hence, to deprive of; to withhold by way of punishment or discipline..

Merce :: Merce (v. t.) To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce.

Mulcted :: Mulcted (imp. & p. p.) of Mulc.

Forfeiture :: Forfeiture (n.) That which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct.

Mulctuary :: Mulctuary (a.) Imposing a pecuniary penalty; consisting of, or paid as, a fine..

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