amerce
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The words achieve, agree, amerce, amount, acquit, acquaint, avow, &c. show the same prefix, derived through the medium of Old French.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
"Nay, but they will hold thee to ransom, and detain thee till it is brought: I heard them amerce thee at a thousand marks."
From The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake
But Plato here, O Athenians! and Crito Critobulus, and Apollodorus bid me amerce myself in thirty minæ, and they offer to be sureties.
From Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Henry Cary
But perhaps I could pay you a mina of silver: in that sum, then, I amerce myself.
From Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Henry Cary
Worst of all was Davie Graham, for having his hands upon the fines, he desired above all to amerce Gilbert Wilson, the tenant of Glen Vernock in the parish of Peninghame.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
My long car-drives from Letterfrack and Clifden were directed mainly towards the spots mentioned in a former letter as of specially evil reputation for agrarian crime, and as being heavily amerced by the grand jury.
From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard H. Becker
The fines are so numerous that it almost appears that every person on the estate was amerced from time to time.
From A Short History of English Agriculture by W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts) Curtler
All those suspected of illegal profits at the time the public delusion was at its height, were sought out and amerced in heavy fines.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Charles Mackay
Shall by him be amerced with penance due.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Therefore as to the present repair of the bridge the Abbot is acquitted, but he is to be amerced because he did not repair it before.
From The Evolution of an English Town by Gordon Home
One of their measures has been questioned as unwise and impolitic—that, namely, for amercing and confiscating the estates of certain of the loyalists, and for banishing the most obnoxious among them.
From The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms
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