Definition of Mulcting

1. Verb. (present participle of mulct) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mulcting

1. mulct [v] - See also: mulct

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mulcting

mulberry fig
mulberry ovary
mulberry spots
mulberry tree
mulberrylike
mulch
mulched
mulcher
mulches
mulching
mulching mower
mulcible
mulct
mulcted
mulcting (current term)
mulcts
mule
mule's ears
mule deer
mule driver
mule fat
mule skinner
muleback
mulebacks
muled
muleless
mulelike
mules

Literary usage of Mulcting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"... in good faith, with the order of the court, and that the ends of justice will not warrant the mulcting of respondents with a heavy fine. ..."

2. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by William H. Steele, Charles Elliott Fitch (1900)
"corporations than railroads; they have hundreds of corporations besides; and this law extends equally to mulcting the individual employer or owner of the ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"And the question will be, Whether the commissioners must not shew a good legal cause to warrant the exercise of the discretion vested in them of mulcting or ..."

4. The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development by William Stubbs (1906)
"The mulcting or ' ransoming ' of ministers. Disgraced ministers restored on payment ... On the other hand the kings possessed, in the custom of mulcting a ..."

5. Criminal Types by Vincent Myron Masten (1922)
"In the other case, the immoral dollar had passed and will pass mainly from the pocket of one mulcting parasite into the pocket of another ..."

6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"... in good faith, with the order of the court, and that the ends of justice will not warrant the mulcting of respondents with a heavy fine. ..."

7. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by William H. Steele, Charles Elliott Fitch (1900)
"corporations than railroads; they have hundreds of corporations besides; and this law extends equally to mulcting the individual employer or owner of the ..."

8. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"And the question will be, Whether the commissioners must not shew a good legal cause to warrant the exercise of the discretion vested in them of mulcting or ..."

9. The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development by William Stubbs (1906)
"The mulcting or ' ransoming ' of ministers. Disgraced ministers restored on payment ... On the other hand the kings possessed, in the custom of mulcting a ..."

10. Criminal Types by Vincent Myron Masten (1922)
"In the other case, the immoral dollar had passed and will pass mainly from the pocket of one mulcting parasite into the pocket of another ..."

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