"merce" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "See amerce.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "merces",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mercing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merced",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merced",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "merce (third-person singular simple present merces, present participle mercing, simple past and past participle merced)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 7 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 18 15 15 13 20 2 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 7 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 18 16 16 13 20 1 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:",
          "text": "this Ralph was merced in seven thousand marks, for bribery, and ejected out of his place.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce."
      ],
      "id": "en-merce-en-verb-JEJLGiql",
      "links": [
        [
          "subject",
          "subject"
        ],
        [
          "fine",
          "fine"
        ],
        [
          "amercement",
          "amercement"
        ],
        [
          "mulct",
          "mulct"
        ],
        [
          "amerce",
          "amerce"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɜː(ɹ)s/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "merce"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 7 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "See amerce.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "merces",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mercing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merced",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merced",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "merce (third-person singular simple present merces, present participle mercing, simple past and past participle merced)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 7 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:",
          "text": "this Ralph was merced in seven thousand marks, for bribery, and ejected out of his place.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "subject",
          "subject"
        ],
        [
          "fine",
          "fine"
        ],
        [
          "amercement",
          "amercement"
        ],
        [
          "mulct",
          "mulct"
        ],
        [
          "amerce",
          "amerce"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɜː(ɹ)s/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "merce"
}