mercedet

[ME., That ys no mede bote a mercede , A maner dewe dette for the doynge; And bote if yt be payed prestliche the payer is to blame. Piers Plowman (C), iv. 306. Mercedonius, Mercedinus (mér-se-dō'ni-us, -di'nus), n. [L.) In the Roman calendar commonly ascribed to Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome, an intercalary month inserted every second year between the 23d and the 24th of February, and having twenty-two or twenty three days. mercement) (mers'ment), n. [ME., also merc i ment, mercy ment; by apheresis from amerce ment. Cf. merc i ament.] A fine; a penalty satisfied by a money-payment; a mulet. Brynge alle men to bowe with-oute byter wounde, With-oute mercement other manslauht amenden alle Piers Plowman (C), v. 182. reames. IMG:content-0483.png:[blocks in formation] of the mercantile system, or of some similar theory. The mercantilists may be best described, as Roscher has remarked, not by any definite economic theorem which they held in common, but by a set of theoretic tendencies, commonly found in combination, though severally prevail. ing in different degrees in different minds. Encyc . Brit ., XIX. 354. IMG:content-0484.png:[blocks in formation]