2. Verb. (third-person singular of mulct) ¹
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Definition of Mulcts
1. mulct [v] - See also: mulct
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mulcts
Literary usage of Mulcts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller (1837)
"Many against Money-mulcts for Conscience. Others conceive the Proportion of the
Fine unconscionable. When sovereigns have made laws, subjects sometimes take ..."
2. A History of England: From the First Invasion by the Romans by John Lingard (1840)
"By the former these mulcts were fixed and certain, apportioned with the most
scrupulous exactitude to the supposed enormity of the offence : in the latter ..."
3. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, Council of Safety (Conn.)., James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1881)
"... and as few pecuniary mulcts as the circumstances thereof will admit; and that
the steward in making up his quarter bills insert the punishments of each ..."
4. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"... A captain claims a dollar a day for tuition in the culinary art — For obeying
my instructions an Australian court mulcts me for five hundred dollars, ..."
5. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1814)
"... mulcts exacted from such as will not attend ; the amount of these being 60
dollars for the federative part of the inhabitants, and 40 for the others. ..."
6. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller (1837)
"Many against Money-mulcts for Conscience. Others conceive the Proportion of the
Fine unconscionable. When sovereigns have made laws, subjects sometimes take ..."
7. A History of England: From the First Invasion by the Romans by John Lingard (1840)
"By the former these mulcts were fixed and certain, apportioned with the most
scrupulous exactitude to the supposed enormity of the offence : in the latter ..."
8. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, Council of Safety (Conn.)., James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1881)
"... and as few pecuniary mulcts as the circumstances thereof will admit; and that
the steward in making up his quarter bills insert the punishments of each ..."
9. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"... A captain claims a dollar a day for tuition in the culinary art — For obeying
my instructions an Australian court mulcts me for five hundred dollars, ..."
10. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1814)
"... mulcts exacted from such as will not attend ; the amount of these being 60
dollars for the federative part of the inhabitants, and 40 for the others. ..."
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