mulcting

Verb

mulct (third-person singular simple present mulcts, present participle mulcting, simple past and past participle mulcted)

1. To impose such a fine or penalty.
   • None of their numerous quarrels with Rome from 437 (?) B.C. onwards (Liv. 4. 17) led to any decisive result until their rebellion in the year 341 B.C., when the city, despite its strong position on a hill with steep sides, was taken (e.g. Polyb. 1. 65) and mulcted of half its territory.1897, Robert Seymour Conway, The Italic Dialects, Cambridge University Press, page 370
2. (transitive) To swindle (someone) out of money.
   • Mr. Train's most celebrated real life case was said to have been the prosecution in 1914 of Henry Siegel, operator of a chain of dry-goods stores, who was accused of mulcting thousands in a savings account scheme.1945 December 23, “Arthur Train Dead; Created Mr. Tutt”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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