amerce
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But Plato here, O Athenians! and Crito Critobulus, and Apollodorus bid me amerce myself in thirty minæ, and they offer to be sureties.
From Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Henry Cary
But ile amerce you with so strong a fine, That you shall all repent the losse of mine.
From Shakespeare in the Theatre by William Poel
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
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
At the Kirk Session of St. Cuthbert’s, held on June 18, 1640, it was decided that every snuff-taker in church be amerced in “twenty shillings for everie falt.”
From England in the Days of Old by William Andrews
I have been thrust into prison, and amerced in a heavy fine.
From Thoughts on African Colonization by William Lloyd Garrison
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
My long car-drives from Letterfrack and Clifden were directed mainly towards the spots mentioned in a former letter as of specially evil reputation for agrarian crime, and as being heavily amerced by the grand jury.
From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard H. Becker
Long that eve, The brethren grieved, noting his vacant stall, Yet thus excused their sadness: 'Well for him, And high his place in heaven; but woe to those Henceforth of services like his amerced!
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere
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
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