(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.]
Example Sentences:
(1) Consider article 20, replacing the ancient word “amerce” with the modern “sanction”: “A free man shall not be [sanctioned] for a trivial offence except in accordance with the degree of the offence … but not so heavily as to deprive him of his livelihood … and none of the aforesaid [sanctions] shall be imposed save by the oath of reputable men”.
(2) It abounds in such terms as wainage , amercement , socage , novel disseisin , mort d’ancestor and distraint .
Merce
Definition:
(v. t.) To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce.
Example Sentences:
(1) They trot through the car park to the Merc and are on the motorway in minutes.
(2) We conclude that the [111In]Merc-labeled leukocytes are equally effective as [111In]oxine-labeled leukocytes in detecting infectious processes.
(3) We have investigated a newer agent, 2-mercaptopyridine-N-oxide (Merc) at our institution which unlike oxine, allows us to label leukocytes in plasma, using a simple kit procedure.
(4) These merR genes were located more than 6 kb from either end of the mer structural genes (merC-merA).
(5) At later times after induction approximately 50% of the transcripts proceed beyond merC.
(6) Fleeing to Leicester, he studied Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham, and discovered Pina Bausch and DV8.
(7) Human leukocytes and platelets were labeled in plasma with indium 111, by incubating cells first with 2-mercaptopyridine N-oxide (Merc) and then with ionic or weakly chelated 111In citrate.
(8) The sensitivities for Merc and oxine procedures were 87% and 92%, respectively, while the respective specificities were 100% and 92%.
(9) Maybe he still cherished fond memories of the time he ventured north as a parliamentary candidate for Central Fife in a large Merc driven by a former nanny.
(10) She left Rodríguez Lozano to live with Dr Atl in La Merced, causing a public scandal second in rumpus only to the scandal caused by their separation, two years later, which included loud public screaming, buckets of cold water thrown at each other, death threats, and defamatory pamphlets pasted on the doors of the ex-convent.
(11) Merc alone and decayed In-merc were non-toxic at the equivalent range, substantiating radiation-induced cytotoxicity of 111In-merc.
(12) The technique described involves complexing 111In with the lipid-soluble chelating agent, 2-mercaptopyridine-N-oxide (merc), in an aqueous medium.
(13) Carbon dioxide (CO2) and a CO2 generating compound, diethyl pyrocarbonate, dramatically improved the cell labeling ability in plasma of [111In]tropolone and Merc.
(14) Friday 'I'm certainly a lot younger than Gordon' Lumsden joins Moyes in the Merc to Bellefield having stayed overnight with David and Pamela.
(15) Undaunted by unpopularity, though he was never to make much money until he and Jasper Johns began to decorate the windows of Bonwit Teller and Tiffany under a joint pseudonym in the mid 50s, Rauschenberg pressed on with theatre designs for another Black Mountain friend, Merce Cunningham, and for Paul Taylor.
(16) The effect of oxine sulfate, oxine sulfonate, tropolone, and Merc (2 mercaptopyridine-1-oxide) were compared with oxine, with respect to their capability of labeling blood cells when complexed to indium-111 (111In).
(17) Modern dance high: Merce Cunningham Event, Tate Modern, 2003.
(18) No polypeptide equivalent to merD or merC of R100 was detected.
(19) Arsenic concentrations in Corbicula from the Tuolumne and Merced Rivers and upstream reaches of the San Joaquin River were higher than in clams from the downstream perennial flow reaches of the San Joaquin River.
(20) Colony blot hybridization analysis showed that merC-positive operons occur almost exclusively in Escherichia, although merC-negative operons can also be found in this genus.