different between mulct vs extort

English

Etymology

From Middle French mulcter (“to fine, punish”), from Latin multa (“penalty, fine”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?lkt/
• Rhymes: -?lkt

Noun

mulct (plural mulcts)

1. (law) A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:

     juries cast up what a wife is worth, / By laying whate'er sum in mulct they please on / The lover, who must pay a handsome price, / Because it is a marketable vice.

   • 1846, Thomas Babington Macauley, The History of England from the Accession of James II, Volume 3, Porter & Coates, Chapter XI:

     The Act of Uniformity had laid a mulct of a hundred pounds on every person who, not having received episcopal ordination, should presume to administer the Eucharist.

   • 1846, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic, 10th ed., Volume I, page xxxvi, note

     […] by the Salic law, no higher mulct was imposed for killing, than for kidnapping a slave.

Translations

Verb

mulct (third-person singular simple present mulcts, present participle mulcting, simple past and past participle mulcted)

1. To impose such a fine or penalty.
2. To swindle (someone) out of money.

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extortus, past participle of extorquere (“to twist or wrench out, to extort”); from ex (“out”) + -tort, from torque? (“twist, turn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?st??(?)t/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t

Verb

extort (third-person singular simple present extorts, present participle extorting, simple past and past participle extorted)

1. (transitive) To take or seize off an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity
2. (transitive, law) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
3. (transitive and intransitive, medicine, ophthalmology) To twist outwards.

Synonyms

• (take by force): wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact

Derived terms

• extortion
• extortionate
• extortionist

Translations

See also

• intort

Adjective

extort (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Wrongfully obtained.