amerced

When you sit down to watch it, you're fully amerced into the universe created by the story.

VIEWPOINT: What makes sci-fi work? 2008

The friar next addressed the company with a proposal, that the foreign merchant, instead of being amerced in a measure of the liquor which he had scandalized, should be mulcted in an equal quantity of the more generous wines which were usually produced after the repast had been concluded.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

ALL those WHO FELL, or the Gods of Greece, Asia, and Egypt; the ONE WHO ROSE, or Jesus Christ, at whose appearance the idols of the Pagan World wore amerced of their worship; and the MANY

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

Over the same period, the number of similarly offending innkeepers who were amerced the higher sum of 3s. 4d. varied between eight in 1631 and 1637 and four in 1632 and every year between 1639 and 1642.

Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994

They therefore decreed that both marks should be restored to their former positions, and amerced both parties by a negligible fine.

Monk's Hood Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1992

Such law suits as have been decided unrighteously shall be re-investigated by the monarch: [in case of reversal of the judgment] the judges and the winning party shall be amerced in double the amount of the fine decreed in the suit.

Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya W.A [Translator] Montriou

An emissary upon the business of the community shall deliver up whatever he has received [on their account]: if he fail to deliver voluntarily, he shall be amerced eleven times the value [of what he withholds].

Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya W.A [Translator] Montriou

Whoso withholds his daughter, [226] after having promised to give her [in marriage], shall be amerced, and shall reimburse all expenses incurred with interest.

Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya W.A [Translator] Montriou

The steward of the court calls all such as are bound to appear, with as low a voice as possible, giving no notice when he goes to execute his office; however, he that does not give an answer is deeply amerced.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 336, October 18, 1828 Various

Should the judges, from partiality, from love of gain, or from fear, act in anywise contrary to law or usage; [46] each one [so acting] shall be amerced in double the value of the suit.

Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya W.A [Translator] Montriou