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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mulct \Mulct\, noun [L. mulcta, multa.]
1. A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty.
2. A blemish or defect. [Obs.]
Syn: Amercement; forfeit; forfeiture; penalty.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mulct \Mulct\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Mulcted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mulcting}.] [L. mulctare, multare.]
1. To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or forfeiture, esp. a pecuniary fine; to fine.
2. Hence, to deprive of; to withhold by way of punishment or discipline. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mulct
noun: money extracted as a penalty [syn: {fine}, {amercement}]
verb
1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: {victimize}, {swindle}, {rook}, {goldbrick}, {nobble}, {diddle}, {bunco}, {defraud}, {scam}, {gyp}, {con}]
2: impose a fine on; "he was fined for littering"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "mulct": amerce, amercement, beat, beguile of, bilk, bleed, bunco, burn, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, claim, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, crib, damages, defraud, demand, diddle, distrain, distraint, distress, do in, do out of, escheat, escheatment, estreat, euchre, exact, finagle, fine, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, forfeit, forfeiture, fudge, gouge, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, levy a distress, milk, pack the deal, penalty, pigeon, practice fraud upon, require, rook, scam, sconce, screw, sell gold bricks, shave, shortchange, stack the cards, stick, sting, sweat, swindle, take a dive, thimblerig, throw a fight, victimize
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