amerce

The words achieve, agree, amerce, amount, acquit, acquaint, avow, &c. show the same prefix, derived through the medium of Old French.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

In your greatness ye shall change it; with your justice ye shall purify it; with your clemencies ye should it chasten and amerce.

From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford Madox Ford

I amerce myself, then, to you in that sum; and they will be sufficient sureties for the money.

From Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Henry Cary

One came whose art men’s dread of are repressed: Mangled and writhing limb he lulled to rest, And stingless left the old Semitic curse; Him, too, for these blest gifts did Zeus amerce?

From Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine by Henry Laing Gordon

Searching those edges of the universe,   We leave the central fields a fallow part; To feed the eye more precious things amerce,       And starve the darkened heart.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow

Such grace were hardUnless, death past, their souls to birds might change,And in the darksomest grove of ParadiseLament, amerced, their error, yet rejoiceIn souls that walked obedient!” 

From The Legends of Saint Patrick by Aubrey De Vere

The fines are so numerous that it almost appears that every person on the estate was amerced from time to time.

From A Short History of English Agriculture by W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts) Curtler

Therefore as to the present repair of the bridge the Abbot is acquitted, but he is to be amerced because he did not repair it before.

From The Evolution of an English Town by Gordon Home

Shall by him be amerced with penance due.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

In 1801 and again in 1802 Cobbett had inveighed against a practice which thus amerced the editors of the London newspapers; but he might as well have preached to the winds.

From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Herbert Joyce

One of their measures has been questioned as unwise and impolitic—that, namely, for amercing and confiscating the estates of certain of the loyalists, and for banishing the most obnoxious among them.

From The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms