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Compel vs Mulct - What's the difference?

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Compel is a related term of mulct.


As verbs the difference between compel and mulct

is that compel is (transitive|archaic|literally) to drive together, round up while mulct is to impose such a fine or penalty.

As a noun mulct is

(legal) a fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one.

compel

English

Verb

  • (transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up (rfex)
  • To overpower; to subdue.
  • * 1917 , , King Coal , ch. 16,
    • She had one of those perfect faces, which irresistibly compel the soul of a man.
  • To force, constrain or coerce.
    • Logic compels''' the wise, while fools feel '''compelled by emotions.
  • * 1600 , , Julius Caesar , act 5, sc. 1,
    • Against my will, / As Pompey was, am I compell’d to set / Upon one battle all our liberties.
  • * Hallam
    • Wolsey compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once.
  • To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Commissions, which compel from each / The sixth part of his substance.
  • * 1912 , , Sky Island , ch. 14,
    • The Queen has nothing but the power to execute the laws, to adjust grievances and to compel order.
  • (obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
  • * Dryden
    • Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled .
  • * Tennyson
    • I compel all creatures to my will.
  • (obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
  • * Dryden
    • in one troop compelled
  • (obsolete) To call forth; to summon.
  • * Spenser
    • She had this knight from far compelled .
    (Chapman)

    Derived terms

    * compellable * compeller * compelling * compellation * compel testimony

    References

    * * * Random House Webster’s Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996. English control verbs English transitive verbs

    mulct

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal) 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 , , 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.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To impose such a fine or penalty.
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  • To swindle (someone) out of money.