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▪ I. ˈtaxing, vbl. n.
[f. tax v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb tax in various senses.
1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xxxiv. 83 To these shyrreues belongeth to punysshe mysdoers by taxyng of money. 1526Tindale Luke ii. 2 This taxynge [Wyclif discryuyng, Rheims enrolling, R.V. enrolment] was fyrst executed when Syrenus was leftenaunt in Siria. 1535Coverdale 1 Esdras ii. 19 They shal not only refuse to geue trybutes and taxinges, but also rebell vtterly agaynst the kynge. 1676Dryden Aurengzebe ii. i, Impose; but use your power of Taxing well. 1737Whiston Josephus, Antiq. xviii. ii. (1812) III. 60 The taxings were come to a conclusion. 1841Myers Cath. Th. iii. §35. 128 This is an undue taxing of any man's faith. a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxiii. (1861) V. 56 The only power which..Washington and Franklin denied to the Imperial legislature was the power of taxing.
b. attrib. and Comb. taxing district (U.S.): see quot.; taxing-master, an officer in a court of law who examines and allows or disallows items in a solicitor's bill of costs when disputed.
1890Cent. Dict. s.v. District, *Taxing district, in the United States, the territory or region into which (for the purpose of assessment merely) a State, county, town, or other political district is divided. H. H. Emmons.
1848Wharton Law Lex., *Taxing masters, officers of the courts, who examine and allow costs. 1882H. C. Merivale Faucit of B. II. i. xvii. 22 That exquisite and rational product of British law, the taxing-master.
▪ II. ˈtaxing, ppl. a.
[f. tax v. + -ing2.]
That taxes, in various senses of the verb.
1798Anti-Jacobin xix. (1852) 84 Again the taxing-man [Pitt] appear'd—No deadlier foe could be. 1813Scott Let. to Joanna Baillie 10 Dec. in Lockhart, As to the taxing men, I must battle them as I can: they are worse than the great Emathian conqueror. 1859Dickens T. Two Cities ii. ix, All the taxing authorities were armed. |