"Misericordia" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
Lat. Mercy; a flne or amerciament; an arbltrary or discretion-ary amercement
An amercement.
A thin-bladed dagger; so called, in the Middle Ages,
because used to give the death wound or \"mercy\" stroke to a fallen
adversary.
An indulgence as to food or dress granted to a member
of a religious order.
Perhaps there are many "nows" of varying duration, depending on just what it is we are doing. We must face up to the fact that, at least in the case of humans, the subject experiencing subjective time is not a perfect, structureless observer, but a complex, multilayered, multifaceted psyche. Different levels of our consciousness may experience time in quite different ways. This is evidently the case in terms of response time. You have probably had the slightly unnerving experience of jumping at the sound of a telephone a moment or two before you actually hear it ring. The shrill noise induces a reflex response through the nervous system much faster than the time it takes to create the conscious experience of the sound.It is fashionable to attribute certain qualities, such as speech ability, to the left side of the brain, whereas others, such as musical appreciation, belong to processes occurring on the right side. But why should both hemispheres experience a common time? And why should the subconscious use the same mental clock as the conscious?
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Did you say that you fell over fifty feet but didn't hurt yourself? Yes - I was trying to get to the back of the bus.
To assess or reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum.
Read the complete definitionPersons who, in court-leets, upon oath, settle and moderate tbe fines and amercements imposed on those who have committed offenses …
Read the complete definitionTo punish, in general; to mulct.
Read the complete definitionTo punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion …
Read the complete definitionTo impose an amercement or fine; to punish by a fine or penalty
Read the complete definitionLiable to be amerced.
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Read the complete definitionThe infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs …
Read the complete definitionA pecuniary penalty, in the nature of a fine, imposed upon a person for some fault or misconduct, he being …
Read the complete definitionOne who amerces.
Read the complete definitionSame as Amercement.
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Read the complete definitionA fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.
Read the complete definitionAn amercement for blood-shed. Cowell
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon and old English law. A fine, penalty, or amercement im-posed for defaults in the assise of bread. Cowell
Read the complete definitionAn amercement or fine; a mulct
Read the complete definitionTo amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.
Read the complete definitionwrit for taking a moderate amercement A writ, founded on Magna Charta, (c. 14,) which lay for one who was …
Read the complete definitionTo seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of …
Read the complete definitionA law was made by Canute, for the preservation of his Danes, that, when a man was killed, the hundred …
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