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Definitions
impose a fine on
Word origin
From Middle French mulcter (“to fine, punish”), from Latin mulcta (“penalty, fine”). Possibly a doublet of milk.
Used in a sentence
“juries cast up what a wife is worth, / By laying whate'er sum in mulct they please on / The lover, who must pay a handsome price, / Because it is a marketable vice.”
“[…]by the Salic law, no higher mulct was imposed for killing, than for kidnapping a slave.”
“The Act of Uniformity had laid a mulct of a hundred pounds on every person who, not having received episcopal ordination, should presume to administer the Eucharist.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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