Word Meanings - MULCT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty. 2. A blemish or defect. Syn. -- Amercement; forfeit; forfeiture; penalty.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MULCT)

• Amerce
• Find
• bind
• mulct
• condemn
• Forfeit
• Fine
• penalty
• amercement
• damages
• loss

Related words: (words related to MULCT)

• CONDEMNER
  One who condemns or censures.
• MULCTARY; MULCTUARY
  Imposing a pecuniary penalty; consisting of, or paid as, a fine. Fines, or some known mulctuary punishments. Sir W. Temple.
• CONDEMNED
  1. Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation. 2. Used for condemned persons. Richard Savage . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs
• AMERCEABLE
  Liable to be amerced.
• AMERCE
  1. To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars. Note: The penalty of fine may be expressed without a preposition,
• CONDEMN
  To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain. Syn. -- To blame; censure; reprove; reproach; upbraid; reprobate; convict; doom; sentence; adjudge. (more info) 1. To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
• FORFEITABLE
  Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture. For the future, uses shall be subject to the statutes of mortmain, and forfeitable, like the lands themselves. Blackstone.
• FORFEIT
  forefactum, forifactum), prop. p.p. of forfaire to forfeit, transgress, fr. LL. forifacere, prop., to act beyond; L. foris out of 1. Injury; wrong; mischief. To seek arms upon people and country that never did us any forfeit. Ld. Berners. 2. A
• FORFEITURE
  1. The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act. Under pain of foreiture of the said goods. Hakluyt. 2. That which is forfeited; a penalty;
• CONDEMNABLE
  Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable.
• CONDEMNATION
  1. The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation. In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley. 2. The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty,
• PENALTY
  1. Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass. Death is the penalty imposed. Milton. 2. The suffering,
• CONDEMNATORY
  Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree.
• MULCT
  1. A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty. 2. A blemish or defect. Syn. -- Amercement; forfeit; forfeiture; penalty.
• AMERCEMENT
  The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is
• AMERCER
  One who amerces.
• FORFEITER
  One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.
• PRECONDEMN
  To condemn beforehand. -- Pre*con`dem*na"tion, n.
• SELF-CONDEMNATION
  Condemnation of one's self by one's own judgment.