capitationn.

Brit.

/ˌkapᵻˈteɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌkæpəˈteɪʃ(ə)n/

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French capitation.

Etymology: < French capitation (1584 in Middle French) < post-classical Latin capitation- , capitatio poll tax (5th cent.) < classical Latin capit- , caput head (see caput n.; compare classical Latin capitātus capitate adj.) + -ātiō -ation suffix. Compare Anglo-Norman capitacion kind of punishment, probably ‘decapitation’ (1322 or earlier). Compare earlier head money n., poll money n.

a. The levying of a tax or fee of so much per head (i.e. from each citizen, union member, pupil, etc.). Hence: a poll tax; a fixed payment or fee on a per capita basis. Cf. head money n.; poll tax n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > per head

capitation?1608

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

head pennyc1175

head silver1252

cense1458

chevage1461

poll money1468

head moneyc1515

polling-penny?1556

capitation?1608

poll-silver1610

census1613

headagea1631

poll1669

poll tax1692

capitation tax1695

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > poll tax > exaction of

pollage?1542

capitation?1608

?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome iii. ii. 374 Such impositions be leuied vpon the goods, and not the heads of men (capitation [Fr. la capitation] being odious to all honest people).

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xvii. §9. 491 By the law of capitation or head money, euery man rich or poore paying halfe a sicle of the Sanctuarie, which is about as much as fourteene pence.

1696 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 156 To make the whole capitation about 5 millions.

1745 H. Fielding True Patriot 7 Jan. 2/1 Demanding two Millions to be immediately raised by a Capitation.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 281 According to the last capitation, there were 166,871 Jews in Poland..who paid the tax.

1809 Times 18 Nov. 3/2 The Capitation, or Poll-Tax.

1864 Museum 1 Oct. 272/2 It was agreed that the rector, instead of a salary of £200, the fees of his class, and a shilling of capitation money from each pupil, should have £350 of salary.

1918 Conf. United Federation of Labor (N.Z.) 4/1 That capitation to the National Executive from the District Councils under clause 12 be reduced to 3d per member.

2000 A. Fauve-Chamoux in D. J. Siddle Migration, Mobility & Modernization vi. 123 Pierre was a gingerbread merchant and the household paid a capitation of between 20 and 50 livres.

b. More fully capitation system. A system under which a doctor or medical group receives a fixed payment (usually monthly) for each patient enrolled in a health plan. Also: a similar system under which a school receives a fixed payment for each enrolled pupil.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > payment > [phrase] > specific payment per head

bob a nob1823

headage1847

capitation system1916

1916 I. M. Rubinow in Trans. of Section on Preventive & Industr. Med. & Public Health (Amer. Med. Association) 137 A capitation system of payment, so much per head per annum, has in it inherent tendencies for slipshod careless medical work.

1949 A. D. G. Blanc Money, Med. & Masses xiii. 110 The undesirable feature of a capitation system is the competition for patients between doctor and doctor.

1966 T. P. Coogan Ireland since Rising x. 218 The capitation system makes it desirable, from a business point of view, to site schools in or near centres of population.

1979 Bookseller 23 June 2802/2 Local [education] authorities have in the past not shown much inclination to defend capitation.

1998 J. W. Saxton & T. L. Leaman Managed Care Success x. 256 With capitation, the gatekeeper in a traditional HMO..does have financial incentives to use resources carefully, albeit appropriately.

†2. The counting of heads or persons. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > counting people

numberingc1325

numbera1382

lustrum1598

capitation1646

poll1659

roll-calling1752

roll-call1763

census1769

conscription1797

head-counting1831

roller1883

headcount1913

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 360 For not performing the commandement of God concerning capitation .

†3. A light, cheap, frequently coarse cloth made of wool and a vegetable fibre. Chiefly attributive, as in capitation cloth, capitation drugget, etc. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [noun] > cheap

baft1598

marry-muff1604

capitation drugget1697

1697 M. Clarke Let. 20 July in B. Clarke Life & Corr. E. Clarke of Chipley iii, in www.nynehead.org (accessed 23 Feb. 2011) I am told theare is a sort of stuff..they call capitation, stuff for men that a whole sute comes to about forty shilling.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Capitation-Drugget, a Cheap, Slight Stuff, called so from the Tax of that Name.

1699 W. Baron Just Def. Royal Martyr Introd. 11 The Whole of all what he calls a History is of as loose a Contexture as our Capitation Stuff, and of as Course a Composition.

1701 London Gaz. No. 3740/4 An Olive Capitation Wastcoat.

1701 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 292 At sealling my capitation suit, hat, and periwig.

1704 London Gaz. No. 4031/4 Some Druggets, Capitation Stuffs, and Shalloons.

1728 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (ed. 5) (at cited word) Capitation or Capitation-Stuff, Sorte de tiretaine [Also in later bilingual dictionaries.].

Compounds

capitation allowance n. an allowance allocated per head; spec. = capitation grant n.

ΚΠ

1832 G. Vashon Let. 16 May in Corr. Emigration of Indians (1834) 917 It may therefore be expected that the amount for capitation allowance..will be speedily settled by drafts on the department.

1887 Morning Post 15 Dec. 2/6 He..impressed upon officers and men the extra duties which would be required of them as an equivalent for the increased capitation allowance.

1948 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 30 Oct. (Suppl.) 155/1 In England and Wales the capitation allowance for drugs to dispensing doctors has been raised to 6s. 6d.

2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 3 Sept. 22 Parents who took this option would presumably be permitted to take the capitation allowance that the Government provides for their children's education and put it into the new venture.

† capitation consumption n. Obsolete rare consumption per head.

ΚΠ

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Oct. We find..the average capitation consumption of tobacco about 8 lb. 3 oz.

capitation fee n. a fee charged or allocated on the basis of so much per head; spec. = capitation grant n.In quot. ?1809 with metaphorical allusion to a bounty for a scalp (cf. scalp n.¹ 2c).

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > other types of grant, etc.

lock1608

vote1704

capitation fee?1809

capitation allowance1832

capitation grant1854

capitation payment1857

King's (or Queen's) bounty1872

block grant1900

?1809 ‘An English Israelite’ Observ. Mission C. F. Frey 8 It was, and still is the custom of the Indians in North America..to claim a reward for every hairy scalp, brought in from the enemy. A reward, which I suppose, has been equally attached to the services of Mr. Frey, in the shape of a capitation fee, for the head of every Israelite, whom he could either kidnap, or crimp.

1835 Courier (London) 24 Jan. 1/2 (advt.) He will receive a contingent augmentation to arise from a capitation fee on every boy in the school.

1912 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 16 Mar. 763/1 The fees for the examiners are determined by the number of candidates; in other words, we pay by capitation fee.

2010 Irish Times (Nexis) 23 July 8 Unlike GPs, who receive an annual capitation fee for each patient regardless of how often they visit the surgery, dentists only get paid after work has been done.

capitation grant n. a grant of a certain sum for every person who fulfils certain conditions, as to a school for scholars who pass a test examination, to volunteers, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > other types of grant, etc.

lock1608

vote1704

capitation fee?1809

capitation allowance1832

capitation grant1854

capitation payment1857

King's (or Queen's) bounty1872

block grant1900

1854 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 4 Feb. 8/2 That a memorial be adopted..praying them to extend to all mixed schools the benefit of the capitation grant.

1903 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 18 Sept. 845/1 Instruction given in so-called organised science schools was originally aided by the Department by means of a small capitation grant.

2010 C. C. Griffin et al. Lives in Balance ii. 41 The survey indicated that most schools had received none of the monies from the capitation grant.

capitation payment n. a payment made or allocated on the basis of so much per head; spec. = capitation grant n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > other types of grant, etc.

lock1608

vote1704

capitation fee?1809

capitation allowance1832

capitation grant1854

capitation payment1857

King's (or Queen's) bounty1872

block grant1900

1857 Daily News 25 May 4/4 For each offender so consigned to the care of this establishment [sc. a reformatory school] a capitation payment of 7s. per week is made by the Treasury to the Managers.

1922 F. Watson Encycl. & Dict. Educ. 1201/1 The capitation payments [in 1918] amounted to £32,474, or £12.56 per free pupil.

1988 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 31 Mar. 866/1 Roper went on to advocate the capitation payment approach, which provides full Medicare benefits at a fixed cost to each enrollee.

2009 Irish Times (Nexis) 3 Aug. 4 The Government will now give childcare providers capitation payments based on the number of eligible children they care for.

capitation tax n. = poll tax n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

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

head pennyc1175

head silver1252

cense1458

chevage1461

poll money1468

head moneyc1515

polling-penny?1556

capitation?1608

poll-silver1610

census1613

headagea1631

poll1669

poll tax1692

capitation tax1695

1695 tr. Present State Europe Feb. 66 The first President made a long Speech, wherein he exhorted 'em to the Payment of the Capitation-Tax.

1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. ii. 112 A capitation tax upon pilgrims to the temple of Jagannath.

1903 ‘M. Twain’ in N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 3 No member of a Christian-Scientist church can retain that membership unless he pay ‘capitation tax’ to the Boston Trust every year.

2010 Jrnl. Techol. & Sci. (Nexis) 4 July 2017 The tax is roughly classified into rate taxations and capitation taxes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	capitation
释义	capitationn. Brit. /ˌkapᵻˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌkæpəˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French capitation. Etymology: < French capitation (1584 in Middle French) < post-classical Latin capitation- , capitatio poll tax (5th cent.) < classical Latin capit- , caput head (see caput n.; compare classical Latin capitātus capitate adj.) + -ātiō -ation suffix. Compare Anglo-Norman capitacion kind of punishment, probably ‘decapitation’ (1322 or earlier). Compare earlier head money n., poll money n. 1. a. The levying of a tax or fee of so much per head (i.e. from each citizen, union member, pupil, etc.). Hence: a poll tax; a fixed payment or fee on a per capita basis. Cf. head money n.; poll tax n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > per head capitation?1608 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > poll tax head pennyc1175 head silver1252 cense1458 chevage1461 poll money1468 head moneyc1515 polling-penny?1556 capitation?1608 poll-silver1610 census1613 headagea1631 poll1669 poll tax1692 capitation tax1695 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > poll tax > exaction of pollage?1542 capitation?1608 ?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome iii. ii. 374 Such impositions be leuied vpon the goods, and not the heads of men (capitation [Fr. la capitation] being odious to all honest people). 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xvii. §9. 491 By the law of capitation or head money, euery man rich or poore paying halfe a sicle of the Sanctuarie, which is about as much as fourteene pence. 1696 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 156 To make the whole capitation about 5 millions. 1745 H. Fielding True Patriot 7 Jan. 2/1 Demanding two Millions to be immediately raised by a Capitation. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 281 According to the last capitation, there were 166,871 Jews in Poland..who paid the tax. 1809 Times 18 Nov. 3/2 The Capitation, or Poll-Tax. 1864 Museum 1 Oct. 272/2 It was agreed that the rector, instead of a salary of £200, the fees of his class, and a shilling of capitation money from each pupil, should have £350 of salary. 1918 Conf. United Federation of Labor (N.Z.) 4/1 That capitation to the National Executive from the District Councils under clause 12 be reduced to 3d per member. 2000 A. Fauve-Chamoux in D. J. Siddle Migration, Mobility & Modernization vi. 123 Pierre was a gingerbread merchant and the household paid a capitation of between 20 and 50 livres. b. More fully capitation system. A system under which a doctor or medical group receives a fixed payment (usually monthly) for each patient enrolled in a health plan. Also: a similar system under which a school receives a fixed payment for each enrolled pupil. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > [phrase] > specific payment per head bob a nob1823 headage1847 capitation system1916 1916 I. M. Rubinow in Trans. of Section on Preventive & Industr. Med. & Public Health (Amer. Med. Association) 137 A capitation system of payment, so much per head per annum, has in it inherent tendencies for slipshod careless medical work. 1949 A. D. G. Blanc Money, Med. & Masses xiii. 110 The undesirable feature of a capitation system is the competition for patients between doctor and doctor. 1966 T. P. Coogan Ireland since Rising x. 218 The capitation system makes it desirable, from a business point of view, to site schools in or near centres of population. 1979 Bookseller 23 June 2802/2 Local [education] authorities have in the past not shown much inclination to defend capitation. 1998 J. W. Saxton & T. L. Leaman Managed Care Success x. 256 With capitation, the gatekeeper in a traditional HMO..does have financial incentives to use resources carefully, albeit appropriately. †2. The counting of heads or persons. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > counting people numberingc1325 numbera1382 lustrum1598 capitation1646 poll1659 roll-calling1752 roll-call1763 census1769 conscription1797 head-counting1831 roller1883 headcount1913 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 360 For not performing the commandement of God concerning capitation . View more context for this quotation †3. A light, cheap, frequently coarse cloth made of wool and a vegetable fibre. Chiefly attributive, as in capitation cloth, capitation drugget, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [noun] > cheap baft1598 marry-muff1604 capitation drugget1697 1697 M. Clarke Let. 20 July in B. Clarke Life & Corr. E. Clarke of Chipley iii, in www.nynehead.org (accessed 23 Feb. 2011) I am told theare is a sort of stuff..they call capitation, stuff for men that a whole sute comes to about forty shilling. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Capitation-Drugget, a Cheap, Slight Stuff, called so from the Tax of that Name. 1699 W. Baron Just Def. Royal Martyr Introd. 11 The Whole of all what he calls a History is of as loose a Contexture as our Capitation Stuff, and of as Course a Composition. 1701 London Gaz. No. 3740/4 An Olive Capitation Wastcoat. 1701 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 292 At sealling my capitation suit, hat, and periwig. 1704 London Gaz. No. 4031/4 Some Druggets, Capitation Stuffs, and Shalloons. 1728 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (ed. 5) (at cited word) Capitation or Capitation-Stuff, Sorte de tiretaine [Also in later bilingual dictionaries.]. Compounds capitation allowance n. an allowance allocated per head; spec. = capitation grant n. ΚΠ 1832 G. Vashon Let. 16 May in Corr. Emigration of Indians (1834) 917 It may therefore be expected that the amount for capitation allowance..will be speedily settled by drafts on the department. 1887 Morning Post 15 Dec. 2/6 He..impressed upon officers and men the extra duties which would be required of them as an equivalent for the increased capitation allowance. 1948 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 30 Oct. (Suppl.) 155/1 In England and Wales the capitation allowance for drugs to dispensing doctors has been raised to 6s. 6d. 2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 3 Sept. 22 Parents who took this option would presumably be permitted to take the capitation allowance that the Government provides for their children's education and put it into the new venture. † capitation consumption n. Obsolete rare consumption per head. ΚΠ 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Oct. We find..the average capitation consumption of tobacco about 8 lb. 3 oz. capitation fee n. a fee charged or allocated on the basis of so much per head; spec. = capitation grant n.In quot. ?1809 with metaphorical allusion to a bounty for a scalp (cf. scalp n.¹ 2c). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > other types of grant, etc. lock1608 vote1704 capitation fee?1809 capitation allowance1832 capitation grant1854 capitation payment1857 King's (or Queen's) bounty1872 block grant1900 ?1809 ‘An English Israelite’ Observ. Mission C. F. Frey 8 It was, and still is the custom of the Indians in North America..to claim a reward for every hairy scalp, brought in from the enemy. A reward, which I suppose, has been equally attached to the services of Mr. Frey, in the shape of a capitation fee, for the head of every Israelite, whom he could either kidnap, or crimp. 1835 Courier (London) 24 Jan. 1/2 (advt.) He will receive a contingent augmentation to arise from a capitation fee on every boy in the school. 1912 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 16 Mar. 763/1 The fees for the examiners are determined by the number of candidates; in other words, we pay by capitation fee. 2010 Irish Times (Nexis) 23 July 8 Unlike GPs, who receive an annual capitation fee for each patient regardless of how often they visit the surgery, dentists only get paid after work has been done. capitation grant n. a grant of a certain sum for every person who fulfils certain conditions, as to a school for scholars who pass a test examination, to volunteers, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > other types of grant, etc. lock1608 vote1704 capitation fee?1809 capitation allowance1832 capitation grant1854 capitation payment1857 King's (or Queen's) bounty1872 block grant1900 1854 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 4 Feb. 8/2 That a memorial be adopted..praying them to extend to all mixed schools the benefit of the capitation grant. 1903 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 18 Sept. 845/1 Instruction given in so-called organised science schools was originally aided by the Department by means of a small capitation grant. 2010 C. C. Griffin et al. Lives in Balance ii. 41 The survey indicated that most schools had received none of the monies from the capitation grant. capitation payment n. a payment made or allocated on the basis of so much per head; spec. = capitation grant n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > other types of grant, etc. lock1608 vote1704 capitation fee?1809 capitation allowance1832 capitation grant1854 capitation payment1857 King's (or Queen's) bounty1872 block grant1900 1857 Daily News 25 May 4/4 For each offender so consigned to the care of this establishment [sc. a reformatory school] a capitation payment of 7s. per week is made by the Treasury to the Managers. 1922 F. Watson Encycl. & Dict. Educ. 1201/1 The capitation payments [in 1918] amounted to £32,474, or £12.56 per free pupil. 1988 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 31 Mar. 866/1 Roper went on to advocate the capitation payment approach, which provides full Medicare benefits at a fixed cost to each enrollee. 2009 Irish Times (Nexis) 3 Aug. 4 The Government will now give childcare providers capitation payments based on the number of eligible children they care for. capitation tax n. = poll tax n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > poll tax head pennyc1175 head silver1252 cense1458 chevage1461 poll money1468 head moneyc1515 polling-penny?1556 capitation?1608 poll-silver1610 census1613 headagea1631 poll1669 poll tax1692 capitation tax1695 1695 tr. Present State Europe Feb. 66 The first President made a long Speech, wherein he exhorted 'em to the Payment of the Capitation-Tax. 1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. ii. 112 A capitation tax upon pilgrims to the temple of Jagannath. 1903 ‘M. Twain’ in N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 3 No member of a Christian-Scientist church can retain that membership unless he pay ‘capitation tax’ to the Boston Trust every year. 2010 Jrnl. Techol. & Sci. (Nexis) 4 July 2017 The tax is roughly classified into rate taxations and capitation taxes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?1608
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