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单词 chevage
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chevagen.

Forms: Middle English chyvyage, 1500s chyvage, ( cheifage), 1500s–1600s chiefage, 1600s cheefage, 1600s, 1800s chivage, 1600s–1800s chevage.
Etymology: < French chevage, also chievage , chefvage , etc., capitation, < chef , chief (chev- ) head + -age suffix.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
Capitation or poll-money paid to a lord or superior; particularly, an annual payment due to a feudal lord by each of his villeins.
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head pennyc1175
head silver1252
cense1458
chevage1461
poll money1468
head moneyc1515
polling-penny?1556
capitation?1608
poll-silver1610
census1613
headagea1631
poll1669
poll tax1692
capitation tax1695
c1250 H. de Bracton De Legibus Angliæ (1569) i. x Cheuagium soluunt (quod dicitur recognitio in signum subiectionis & dominii de capite suo).
1292 Britton i. xxxii. §9 Suffist qe les seignurs..preignent..un dener par an de chefage et un jour en aust de service.]
1461–83 Liber Niger Edw. IV in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 23 The King offerithe or sendithe to the shryne of Seint Thomas of Caunterbury, in the name of Chyvyage, three florynes of golde..yerely.
1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha i. xix. 173 One of the Articles enquirable in the Kings bench whether any persons take others to their Auowment and protection, and receiue of them rentes (or other giftes) yearely in the name of Chyuage (or rather Cheifage) bycause they seeme to take vpon them to be their Chiefes, heades, or leaders.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. O1v/2 Chevage..signifieth..a summe of money paid by villeins to their Lords, in acknowledgment of their slauerie.
1626 R. Harris Hezekiah's Recov. 20 Tenants must pay their rent, a cheefage..must they not?
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 140 a.
1650 C. Elderfield Civil Right Tythes vi. 47 Foldage,..Chevage,..Chimmage, I doubt not all these are as due to those can claim then by law, as mony lent [etc.]
1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Chevage, Chivage, Chiefage.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Jews, while allow'd to live in England, paid Chevage, or Poll-Money; viz. three Pence per Head, paid at Easter.
1880 Rogers in Contemp. Rev. XXXVII. 675 An annual tax, known as chivage.
figurative.1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxlvi. 900 In deede I am the owner of it; but yet God hath reserued some chiefage for himselfe.1626 R. Harris Hezekiah's Recov. 4 'Tis our profession, our promise, our cheefage and rent that is due to him.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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