mulct

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one.
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To impose such a fine or penalty.
    — 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.
  2. To swindle (someone) out of money. transitive
    — Mr. Train's most celebrated real life case was said to have been the prosecution in 1914 of Henry Siegel, operator of a chain of dry-goods stores, who was accused of mulcting thousands in a savings account scheme.

词形变化

mulcts plural mulcts present,singular,third-person mulcting participle,present mulcted participle,past mulcted past

词汇关系

衍生词
mulctable unmulcted

词源

词源 1
From Middle French mulcter (“to fine, punish”), from Latin mulcta (“penalty, fine”). Possibly a doublet of milk.
词源 2
From Middle French mulcter (“to fine, punish”), from Latin mulcta (“penalty, fine”). Possibly a doublet of milk.
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