Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Mulct   Listen
verb
Mulct  v. t.  (past & past part. mulcted; pres. part. mulcting)  
1.
To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or forfeiture, esp. a pecuniary fine; to fine.
2.
Hence, to deprive of; to withhold by way of punishment or discipline. (Obs.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Mulct" Quotes from Famous Books



... not mulct my country of any portion of the hours appointed for my labour, pleading Charles Lamb's humorous excuse, that, if I did come late, I certainly made up for it "by going away early!" On the contrary, ...
— She and I, Volume 2 - A Love Story. A Life History. • John Conroy Hutcheson
... monopoly. The government at length were driven to the desperate "Order in Council" to pull down all new houses within ten miles of the metropolis—and further, to direct the Attorney-General to indict all those sojourners in town who had country houses, and mulct them in ruinous fines. The rural gentry were "to abide in their own counties, and by their housekeeping in those parts were to guide and relieve the meaner people according to the ancient usage of the English nation." The ...
— Literary Character of Men of Genius - Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions • Isaac D'Israeli
... you have nothing more that is modern to go through unless it be the companionship of a guide in military uniform who escorts you, in reality to watch, you (especially if you belong to the country of Lord Elgin), but not to mulct you in the least. Placards in all the known languages forbid you to offer him so much as an obolus. You make your entree, in a word, into the antique life, and you are as free ...
— The Wonders of Pompeii • Marc Monnier
... MULCT. A fine in money for some fault or misdemeanour. Also, fines formerly laid on ships by a trading company, to raise money for ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth


Words linked to "Mulct" :   impose, rook, hornswoggle, levy, scam, gip, amercement, short-change, gyp, goldbrick, chisel, short, diddle, library fine, nobble, victimize, rip off, swindle, bunco, cheat, penalty, defraud


Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org