单词 | tax-gatherer |
释义 | tax-gatherern. archaic. A collector of taxes. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > tax collection > [noun] > tax-collector catchpoleOE publicanc1175 tallagerc1400 leviera1513 vectigal1535 renter?1536 task-gatherer1552 exactor1570 uptaker1576 exacter1596 mise-gatherer1597 taxer1603 tax-taker1610 raiser1611 summonitor1617 summonisterc1625 riding officer1675 zamindar1683 tax-gatherer1693 desai1698 amildar1761 amil1763 collector1772 tax-master1796 tehsildar1799 taxman1803 tax-receiver1830 tax-collector1833 the taxes1874 revenuer1877 revenue1880 levyist1923 T-man1938 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Taske gatherer, exactor.] 1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xxxiii Casaubon..says that Horace being the Son of a Tax-gatherer..smells every where of the meanness of his Birth. 1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. IV. l. 403 The oppressions of the tax-gatherers..were considered as so severe, that the army once more rose to vindicate their freedom. 1826 Syd. Smith Let. Catholic Quest. in Wks. (1859) II. 232/1 The tax-gatherer is the most indulgent and liberal of human beings;..and is candidly and impartially oppressive to every description of the Christian world. 1904 Expositor Mar. 213 Christ..certainly had a taxgatherer for one of his chief disciples. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2019). > as lemmastax-gatherer b. esp. A collector of money, often with defining word as rent-gatherer, tax-gatherer, toll-gatherer (now commonly -collector). ΚΠ a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxx. 413 Rasers of the fals tax And gederars of greyn wax. 1521 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) 318 They that were the gaderers of this trybute came to saynt Peter. 1572 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 342 To appoynt two gatherers..for the same money. < n.1693 as lemmas |
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