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Word of the Day - Mulct - Aug 25, 2007
8/25/2007 10:52:46 AM

Word of the Day
Saturday August 25, 2007

mulct \MULKT\, noun:
1. A fine or penalty.

transitive verb:
1. To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or demanding a forfeiture.
2. To obtain by fraud or deception.
3. To defraud; to swindle.

Officials repaid such loans by mulcting the public in a variety of legal and extra-legal ways.
-- William H. McNeill, A World History

The fact that major corporations don't have to pay their own way, and instead are able to enlist legislators to mulct common citizens -- and businesses with more modest Washington connections -- deforms the entire political system.
-- Doug Bandow, "The Bipartisan Scandal of U.S. Corporate Welfare"

State lawmakers and state courts . . . [have] ditched old common law rules so as to charge deep-pocket defendants with harms that were once considered other people's fault, thus making it thinkable to mulct automakers for the costs of drunk drivers' crashes
-- Walter Olson, "Firing Squad", Reason, May 1999

Mulct comes from Latin multa, "a fine."

Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for mulct

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Re: Word of the Day - Mulct - Aug 25, 2007
8/25/2007 12:05:47 PM

I use another very similar sounding word.  The picture on my OPINIONS page pretty much says it all.  If you need an explaination. 

Thanks BJ

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Re: Word of the Day - Mulct - Aug 25, 2007
8/25/2007 2:53:04 PM
Thanks Bj I always thought the government was "milking us dry", but now I stand corrected the government is MULCTING us dry to provide for Illegals. (lol)


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Re: Word of the Day - Mulct - Aug 25, 2007
8/25/2007 3:24:34 PM

Hi Bj,
If you keep this up, I may learn something!

Mary

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Re: Word of the Day - Mulct - Aug 25, 2007
8/25/2007 4:15:10 PM
Hey B J, So we're not being 'scammed', we're being 'mulcted'? Beginning to sound an awful lot like another word...hmmm...
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