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
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  • 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
  • They have joined erstwhile political masters and mafia men to mulct the state.
  • The friar next addressed the company with a proposal, that the foreign merchant, instead of being amerced in a measure of the liquor which he had scandalized, should be mulcted in an equal quantity of the more generous wines which were usually produced after the repast had been concluded. Anne of Geierstein
  • If he come into debt by contract, or mulct, the case is the same. Leviathan
  • In the pamphlet it is "sconced"; that very common old word for fined or mulcted. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
  • Abd al-Rahman's textual reforms resulted in another version of widespread economic malaise, one with a coercive literati using innovative state documents and records to mulct merchants, extort office holders, and extract inordinate amounts of resources from the general population. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • Before he left for the north, Henry mulcted the citizens of 500 marks.
  • He turned to a Peterborough, for which McPherson had just mulcted him of thrice its value. CHAPTER 22
  • It was only on the return journey, when we were mulcted of an outrageous fee after a near ducking, that we realised this was yet another way of increasing personal revenue for the local boys.
  • The alleged debt is simply an accounting fiction that provides a mask over reality and furnishes a convenient means for mulcting the taxpayer.
  • Must we account him a ‘bad king,’ sacrificing the interests of England, concerned only to mulct the realm for the benefit of his principal life's work, the Crusade?
  • It holds that the laborer is worthy of his hire, and that such as may be frugal, diligent and enterprising should reap the profit of their toil, nor be mulcted of the same by legislation in favor of the indigent and shiftless. The Principles of the Republican Party: A Rare Unpublished Jack London Essay
  • 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: cuius leges politicæ, quemuis in adulterio cum vxore, à viro legitime deprehensum, si euaserit, homicidij mulctam expendere iubent? A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
  • It is, however, small consolation to the higher-income person that the poorer man is paying the same percentage of income in tax as he, for the wealthier person is being mulcted far more than before.
  • It is the act of the assembly because voted by the major part; and if it be a crime, the assembly may be punished, as far forth as it is capable, as by dissolution, or forfeiture of their letters (which is to such artificial and fictitious bodies, capital) or, if the assembly have a common stock, wherein none of the innocent members have propriety, by pecuniary mulct. Leviathan
  • However, granting him the moral and legal right to mulct his fellows increases his moral degradation instead of ending it, for the beneficiary is now further removed from the production line than ever.
  • It holds that the laborer is worthy of his hire, and that such as may be frugal, diligent and enterprising should reap the profit of their toil, nor be mulcted of the same by legislation in favor of the indigent and shiftless. The Principles of the Republican Party: A Rare Unpublished Jack London Essay
  • Thenceforth, the weary travelers were mulcted a dollar per head for the privilege of sleeping on the floor, Jacob Kent weighing the dust and never failing to steal the down-weight. THE MAN WITH THE GASH
  • The American taxpayer was duped and mulct to little avail. Asher Edelman: Dexia (ONE BANK) $238.9 billion
  • There was a personal reason why the bishop was unpopular among the citizens, for "he procured that the justices in eyre should sit in London; on which occasion, because the citizens had committed various offences, they were heavily punished by the loss of their liberties, by pecuniary mulcts, and by bodily chastisment, as they deserved. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
  • It comes as no surprise that he and his craven right-wing thugs would attempt to humiliate and heap further indignities upon the former hostages by mulcting them of $6000 + for Japan's ‘out of pocket expenses’.
  • He was mulcted $50 for violating traffic regulations.
  • Illane, quæ pro adulterio, à famulo cum vxore domini commisso, non ita dudum 80. thalerorum mulctam irrogauit? A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
  • From the Mirza title, it appears the Qandahar Police Chief may not have been relying on physical coercion as much as accountant-based or bookkeeping tactics to mulct the local merchant. back Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • Thereupon I taught her that in every well-constituted city the citizens are not content merely to pass good laws, but they further choose them guardians of the laws,208 whose function as inspectors is to praise the man whose acts are law-abiding, or to mulct some other who offends against the law. Oeconomicus
  • This discontinuation is really a ploy to rob and mulct the historic taxpayers to rescue the finances of the municipality.
  • You wouldn't catch me in one even though Kennet Council mulcts me for hundreds of pounds every year to subsidise their ‘Leisure Centres’.
  • They write, ‘Indians had little comprehension of the value of money, the ownership of land… and so land sharks and grog sellers found it easy to mulct them of their property’.
  • I wouldn't want ya ta get run over by a street-car. mulct Robinson for cash, and then exploit his painting hobby for more. Princeofcairo: Film Fest In July

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