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mulct

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5 lettersPronunciation /mʌlkt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted clmtuStarts with MEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. 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.

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