Synonyms for sconcing
- confiscate
- levy
- punish
- alienate
- amerce
- dock
- exact
- extort
- mulct
- sconce
- seize
- sequestrate
- tax
- hit with
- make pay
- pay through the nose
- slap with
- throw book at
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EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR SCONCING
Sconcing seems to have been the penalty for offences very various in degree.
Sconce; to chaff, banter, make game of:—'None of your sconcing.'
WORD ORIGIN
late 14c., "candlestick with a screen," a shortening of Old French esconse "lantern, hiding place," from Medieval Latin sconsa, from Latin absconsa, fem. past participle of abscondere "to hide" (see abscond). Meaning "metal bracket-candlestick fastened to a wall" is recorded from mid-15c.
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