mulct

Synonyymisanakirja

mulct

sakko, sopimuskorvaus, sopimussakko, sakkorangaistus, kirjastosakko, periä veroa, panna veroa, verottaa, sakottaa, kohdella kaltoin, petkuttaa, huijata, kähveltää, puijata, kavaltaa, tehdä petos, pettää, huiputtaa, vedättää, ryöstää, naruttaa.

Englannin sanakirja

mulct (englanti > suomi)

1. sakko

2. sakottaa

mulct englanniksi

1. puhekieltä A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one.

2. 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:

juries cast up what a wife is worth, / By laying whate'er sum in mulct they please on / The lover, who must pay a handsome price, / Because it is a marketable vice.

3. 1846, Thomas Babington Macauley, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2612/2612-h/2612-h.htm The History of England from the Accession of James II, Volume 3, Porter & Coates, Chapter XI:

The Act of Uniformity had laid a mulct of a hundred pounds on every person who, not having received episcopal ordination, should presume to administer the Eucharist.

4. 1846, w:William H. Prescott|William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic, 10th ed., Volume I, page xxxvi, note

(..)by the Salic law, no higher mulct was imposed for killing, than for kidnapping a slave.

5. To impose such a fine or penalty.

6. (quote-book)

7. (RQ:Wodehouse Offing)

8. To swindle (someone) out of money.

9. (quote-book)| page=140| https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0226264211| author=(w), ‎(w)| year=1962| passage=However, the pressure on the legislature to license an occupation rarely comes from the members of the public who have been mulcted or in other ways abused by members of the occupation.

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