[
US
/ˈməɫkt/
]
VERB
-
deprive of by deceit
He swindled me out of my inheritance
She defrauded the customers who trusted her -
impose a fine on
he was fined for littering
NOUN
- money extracted as a penalty
How To Use mulct In A Sentence
- As where a law exacteth a pecuniary mulct of them that take the name of God in vain, the payment of the mulct is not the price of a dispensation to swear, but the punishment of the transgression of a law indispensable. Leviathan
- Donors were not treated as patsies to be mulcted, ticket buyers were not treated as boobs, and the public was assured that although concern was warranted, panic was not. Ivan Katz: And So Falleth the Sky
- Supposing a landowner exploits his tenants and mulcts them of the fruit of their toil by appropriating it to his own use.
- The picture of the bewhiskered trio, as he had last seen them, mulcted of four dollars and ninety cents and a ferry ticket, made him chuckle. Chapter 34
- Illane, qu� pro adulterio, � famulo cum vxore domini commisso, non ita dudum 80. thalerorum mulctam irrogauit? The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
- They guarantee overtime to specific, politically approved occupations: namely those in the public sector where overtime merely results in mulcting the taxpayer.
- My remark was an epitogram -- an axis -- a kind of mulct'em in parvo. The Gentle Grafter
- In token of their gratitude, the packers patronized his faro and roulette layouts and were mulcted cheerfully of their earnings. AT THE RAINBOW'S END
- One night I was out fishing in the lagoon with Oti, the man who had been mulcted of the cowries. YAH! YAH! YAH!
- Instead of approval he received censure, and was mulcted a fine as heavy as the law allowed. Archive 2009-01-01