Definition of "amercing" []

• Present participle of amerce. (verb)

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• "That _avenging_ the death of the servant, was neither imprisonment, nor stripes, nor amercing the master in damages, but that it was _taking the master's life_ we infer."
• "One of their measures has been questioned as unwise and impolitic -- that, namely, for amercing and confiscating the estates of certain of the loyalists, and for banishing the most obnoxious among them."
• "The principal man-dancer was arrested for debt; to the composer his Lordship gave a bad note, not payable in two years, besides amercing him entirely three hundred pounds, on pretence of his siding with the Violette."