amerce

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

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

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

But perhaps I could pay you a mina of silver: in that sum, then, I amerce myself.

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

"Nay, but they will hold thee to ransom, and detain thee till it is brought: I heard them amerce thee at a thousand marks."

From The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

It occurs, as every one knows, in the clause of the Great Charter, which says that the villain who falls into the king's mercy is to be amerced 'saving his waynage.'

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

No amercement to touch the necessary means of subsistence of a free man, the merchandise of a merchant, or the agricultural tools of a villein; earls and barons to be amerced by their equals. 23-34.

From The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery

A peer can be amerced only by his peers, and never to any greater amount than five pounds, excepting in the case of a duke, who can be amerced ten.

From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

The Pepperers are first mentioned as a fraternity among the amerced guilds of Henry II., but had probably clubbed together at an earlier period.

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

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

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