† focagen.

Forms: 1600s focadge, 1600s–1800s focage; also Scottish pre-1700 focage.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French focage; Latin focagium.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman focage hearth tax (late 14th cent. or earlier), or its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin focagium hearth tax (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources), fuel (from 13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin focus (see focus n.) + -agium -age suffix. With later use compare feuage n.

Obsolete.

In earlier use: fuel. In later use historical: a tax on a hearth or domestic fire, imposed by Edward the Black Prince (1330–76) on Aquitaine; = feuage n.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > property tax > hearth or chimney tax

focage1499

feuage1523

smoke-pence1584

smoke-penny1631

hearth money1662

smoke-money1662

chimney-money1664

smoke-silver1664

hearth tax1689

fumage1755

chimney-tax1855

1499 in G. Neilson & H. Paton Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1918) II. 293 That this wod and forest is the Kingis undoutable, and that this parti allegis til be infeft of the fostery and focage of it.

1592 in Marquis of Huntly Rec. Aboyne (1894) 175 The toun and landis..with the houses, biggingis, pasturage, focage, propirtie and commountie.

1616 W. Cornwallis Essayes Certaine Paradoxes sig. G 4^v Meum and Tuum [did not] bound out, and apportionate Lands and Lordships, by meare stones, and diuersity of Tenures of sockage and focadge.

1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Fuage or Focage..In the Reign of Edward the Third, the Black Prince of Wales, having Aquitain granted him, laid an Imposition of Fuage or Focage upon the Subjects of that Dukedom, viz. A shilling for every Fire, called Herth-Silver.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Fuage or Focage, Hearth-money, an Imposition of Twelve-pence for every Fire-hearth.

1893 M. H. A. Stapleton Three Oxfordshire Parishes 253 ‘Focage, Hearth or Smoke Money’ dates in England from the wars of the Plantagenet Kings in France.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	focage
释义	† focagen. Forms: 1600s focadge, 1600s–1800s focage; also Scottish pre-1700 focage. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French focage; Latin focagium. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman focage hearth tax (late 14th cent. or earlier), or its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin focagium hearth tax (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources), fuel (from 13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin focus (see focus n.) + -agium -age suffix. With later use compare feuage n. Obsolete. In earlier use: fuel. In later use historical: a tax on a hearth or domestic fire, imposed by Edward the Black Prince (1330–76) on Aquitaine; = feuage n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > property tax > hearth or chimney tax focage1499 feuage1523 smoke-pence1584 smoke-penny1631 hearth money1662 smoke-money1662 chimney-money1664 smoke-silver1664 hearth tax1689 fumage1755 chimney-tax1855 1499 in G. Neilson & H. Paton Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1918) II. 293 That this wod and forest is the Kingis undoutable, and that this parti allegis til be infeft of the fostery and focage of it. 1592 in Marquis of Huntly Rec. Aboyne (1894) 175 The toun and landis..with the houses, biggingis, pasturage, focage, propirtie and commountie. 1616 W. Cornwallis Essayes Certaine Paradoxes sig. G 4^v Meum and Tuum [did not] bound out, and apportionate Lands and Lordships, by meare stones, and diuersity of Tenures of sockage and focadge. 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Fuage or Focage..In the Reign of Edward the Third, the Black Prince of Wales, having Aquitain granted him, laid an Imposition of Fuage or Focage upon the Subjects of that Dukedom, viz. A shilling for every Fire, called Herth-Silver. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Fuage or Focage, Hearth-money, an Imposition of Twelve-pence for every Fire-hearth. 1893 M. H. A. Stapleton Three Oxfordshire Parishes 253 ‘Focage, Hearth or Smoke Money’ dates in England from the wars of the Plantagenet Kings in France. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1499
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