| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Amerce.[Websters]
2. To have assessed or fixed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be disciplined. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be fined. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have visited. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have corrected or penalized. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have trounced, castigated or strafed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have scourged or birched. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have punished or penalised. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have chastised or afflicted.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb amerce.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (amerce) | 1. Punish with an arbitrary penalty.[Wordnet]. 2. Punish by a fine imposed arbitrarily by the discretion of the court.[Wordnet]. 3. 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.[Websters]. 4. To punish, in general; to mulct.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: amercing, amerced, amerces, amercer, amercers, amercingly and amercedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
"AMERCED" is a common misspelling or typo for: amerces. |
Date "AMERCED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1696. (references) |
Specialty Definition: AMERCED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Fined at the discretion of a court.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of amerce. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
