amerce

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Amerce, a-mėrs′, v.t. to punish by a fine: to deprive of anything, or inflict loss upon.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

But Ile Amerce you with so strong a fine, That you shall all repent the losse of mine.

From Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, William

Hence springs, and hence alone, my grief of heart;65 If one, in nought superior to myself Save in his office only, should by force Amerce me of my well-earn'd recompense— How then?

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William