Definition of "mulct"
mulct
noun
plural mulcts
(law) A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one.
Quotations
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.
1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
verb
third-person singular simple present mulcts, present participle mulcting, simple past and past participle mulcted
To impose such a fine or penalty.
Quotations
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