amerce

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Millions of spirits for his fault amerced Of Heaven.

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He was prosecuted, convicted, amerced in a fine, and imprisoned three months in York Castle.

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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.'

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

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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.

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