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pretaxation|priːtækˈseɪʃən|
Also præ-.
[ad. med.L. *prætaxātiōn-em, n. of action f. med.L. prætaxāre to count, reckon, or estimate beforehand: see pre- A. and taxation. The intermediate sense was app. that of giving a preliminary opinion.]
The action of giving a vote before others; prior election: see quots.
1769Robertson Chas. V (1796) I. 358 This privilege of voting first is called by the German lawyers the right of Praetaxation. 1864Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. xiv. (1866) 251 At the election of Lothar II. a.d. 1125 we find a certain small number of magnates exercising the so-called right of prætaxation; that is to say, choosing alone the future monarch, and then submitting him to the rest for their approval. Ibid. 252 The right of prætaxation had ripened into an exclusive privilege of election, vested in a small body. 1878Stubbs Const. Hist. III. xx. 417 A pretaxation was made by the ruling officers of the community. |