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Mulct   Listen
noun
Mulct  n.  
1.
A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty.
2.
A blemish or defect. (Obs.)
Synonyms: Amercement; forfeit; forfeiture; penalty.





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"Mulct" Quotes from Famous Books



... Thirty years: 1410-1440. A peace with Poland soon followed that Defeat of Tannenberg; humiliating peace, with mulct in money, and slightly in territory, attached to it. Which again was soon followed by war, and ever again; each new peace more humiliating than its foregoer. Teutsch Order is steadily sinking,—into debt, among other things; driven to severe ...
— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great—The Hohenzollerns In Brandenburg—1412-1718 • Thomas Carlyle
... then) the faithless trust? He suffers who gives surety for the unjust: But say, if that lewd scandal of the sky, To liberty restored, perfidious fly: Say, wilt thou bear the mulct?" He instant cries, "The mulct I bear, ...
— The Odyssey of Homer • Homer, translated by Alexander Pope


Words linked to "Mulct" :   con, short, short-change, penalty, nobble, cheat, diddle, swindle, victimize, gyp, rook, bunco, defraud, fine, rip off


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