amercement
81sconce — Synonyms and related words: abatis, advanced work, amercement, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bean, belfry, bracket, brain, breastwork, brow, bulwark,… …
82punishment — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Applying a penalty for an offense Nouns 1. punishment; chastisement, chastening; correction, castigation; discipline, infliction, trial; judgment, penalty; retribution; thunderbolt, nemesis; requital,… …
83mulct — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To cheat someone] Syn. defraud, trick, swindle; see deceive , lie 1 . 2. [Punish] Syn. penalize, fine, reprove; see punish . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) I noun A sum of money levied as punishment for an offense: amercement,… …
84Penalty — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Penalty >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 penalty penalty Sgm: N 1 retribution retribution &c.(punishment) 972 Sgm: N 1 pain pain pains and penalties Sgm: N 1 weregild weregild wergild Sgm: N 1 peine for …
85amerce — (v.) 1215, earlier amercy, Anglo Fr. amercier to fine, from merci mercy, grace (see MERCY (Cf. mercy)). The legal phrase estre a merci to be at the mercy of (a tribunal, etc.) was corrupted to estre amercié in an example of how a legalese… …
86penalty — n. 1. Punishment, penal retribution. 2. Forfeiture, fine, mulct, amercement …
87fine — I. a. 1. Minute, small, little, comminuted. 2. Slender, delicate, capillary. 3. Light, of delicate material, of fine texture. 4. Keen, sharp. 5. Thin, subtile, tenuous, attenuated. 6. Exquisite, nice, refined. 7. Excellent, super …
88forfeit — I. n. Fine, mulct, amercement, penalty, forfeiture. II. v. a. Lose (by some offence, by neglect, or by breach of condition), alienate …
89mulct — I. n. Fine, amercement, forfeit, forfeiture, pecuniary penalty. II. v. a. Fine, amerce, impose a fine upon …
90Affeer — ♦ To settle the amount of an amercement, to assess. (Bennett, H.S. Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions, 1150 1400, 337) Related terms: Affeeror …
