amerce

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

"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

Worst of all was Davie Graham, for having his hands upon the fines, he desired above all to amerce Gilbert Wilson, the tenant of Glen Vernock in the parish of Peninghame.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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

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

If the proper number failed to appear the whole township was amerced, the entry on the rolls being frequently of the form “Villata de A. est in misericordia quia non venit plenarie.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various

I have been thrust into prison, and amerced in a heavy fine.

From Thoughts on African Colonization by William Lloyd Garrison

But even in this court it was the law "that none be amerced but by his peers."—Mirror of Justices, 49.

From An Essay on the Trial by Jury by Lysander Spooner

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

On October 4, 1605, the Commissioners of the Sewers amerced him for the Rose, but return was made that it was then "out of his hands."

From Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration by Joseph Quincy Adams

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