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单词 merce
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mercev.

Forms: Middle English mercs, 1500s marse, 1500s merce, 1500s merse.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: amerce v.
Etymology: Aphetic < amerce v. (see forms s.v.). Compare mercement n., mercy v. 2.With use with at (see quot. 1570) and in (see quot. a1661) compare amerce v. 1b.
Obsolete.
transitive. = amerce v.
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society > authority > punishment > fine > [verb (transitive)] > by arbitrary fine
to do (also put in) the mercyc1325
amerce1389
mercy?a1400
amerciate1460
merce1530
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 5490 Ȝyf þou haue be so coueytous To mercs [v.r. mercye] men ouer outraious, And pore men specyaly..Þy mercyment shal be ful hard.
1530 Bible (Tyndale) Exod. xxi. f. xxxvv Then shall he be mersed, acordynge as the womans husbonde will laye to his charge.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. f. 361/2 Walter Treasurer of the kinges house was..marsed at an hundreth pound.
1607 G. Wilkins Miseries Inforst Mariage B 4 Then hath he power To Merce your purse.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Norf. 249 Ralph was merced in seven thousand marks, for bribery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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