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- Amerce - v. t. - To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars.
- Amerce - v. t. - To punish, in general; to mulct.
- Amerceable - a. - Liable to be amerced.
- Amerced - imp. & p. p. - of Amerce
- Amercement - n. - The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.]
- Amercer - n. - One who amerces.
- Condemn - v. t. - To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.
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- Deuteronomy 5 22:19 - And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel : and she shall be his wife ; he may not put her away all his days.
וענשׁו אתו מאה כסף ונתנו לאבי הנערה כי הוציא שׁם רע על בתולת ישׂראל ולו־תהיה לאשׁה לא־יוכל לשׁלחה כל־ימיו
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- Deuteronomy 5 22:19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
עָנַשׁ מֵאָה כֶּסֶף נָתַן אָב נַעֲרָה יָצָא רַע שֵׁם בְּתוּלָה יִשְׂרָאֵל אִשָּׁה יָכֹל שָׁלַח יוֹם