juries cast up what a wife is worth, / By laying whate'er sum in mulct they please on / The lover, who must pay a handsome price, / Because it is a marketable vice.
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Mulct
//mʌlkt//
Synonyms for "mulct" (93 found)
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Translations
9 translations across 7 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- глобявам verb (impose a fine)
Finnish
1 entries- sakottaa verb (impose a fine)
French
2 entries- mulcter verb (impose a fine)
- verbaliser verb (impose a fine)
Polish
1 entries- ukarać grzywną verb (impose a fine)
Portuguese
1 entries- multar verb (impose a fine)
Russian
2 entries- оштрафова́ть verb (impose a fine)
- штрафова́ть verb (impose a fine)
Spanish
1 entries- multar verb (impose a fine)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
[…]by the Salic law, no higher mulct was imposed for killing, than for kidnapping a slave.
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The Act of Uniformity had laid a mulct of a hundred pounds on every person who, not having received episcopal ordination, should presume to administer the Eucharist.
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None of their numerous quarrels with Rome from 437 (?) B.C. onwards (Liv. 4. 17) led to any decisive result until their rebellion in the year 341 B.C., when the city, despite its strong position on a hill with steep sides, was taken (e.g. Polyb. 1. 65) and mulcted of half its territory.
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