amerce
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
amerce (amerces, present participle amercing; past and past participle amerced)
- (transitive) To impose a fine on; to fine.
- 1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ↗, Act III, Scene I:
- But I'll amerce you with so strong a fine
- That you shall all repent the loss of mine:
- 1803, David Hume, The History of England, Volume 9, J. Wallis (1803), [http://books.google.com/books?id=E7UIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA10&dq=%22The+person,+in+whose+house+the+conventicle+met,+was+amerced+a%22 page 10]:
- The person, in whose house the conventicle met, was amerced a like sum.
- 2002, Christopher Dyer, Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520, Yale University Press (2002), ISBN 0300090609, page 180 ↗:
- Lords responded to these offences by amercing (fining) them in the manor court, the revenues of which could provide a twentieth, or even a higher proportion of estate income.
- 1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ↗, Act III, Scene I:
- (transitive) To punish; to make an exaction.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost ↗, Book I, ll. 607-10:
- The fellows of his crime, the followers rather
- (Far other once beheld in bliss), condemn'd
- For ever now to have their lot in pain,
- Millions of Spirits for his fault amerc't
- 1821, Byron, Cain ↗, Act III, Scene I:
- Thou know'st thou art naked! Must the time
- Come thou shalt be amerced for sins unknown,
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost ↗, Book I, ll. 607-10:
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