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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tax \Tax\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Taxed}; p. pr & vb n.
{Taxing}.] [Cf. F. taxer. See {Tax}, n.]
1. To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a
tax upon to lay a burden upon especially, to exact money
from for the support of government.
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride,
and folly than we are taxed by government.
--Franklin.
2. (Law) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount
of as to tax the cost of an action in court.
3. To charge; to accuse; also to censure; -- often followed
by with rarely by of before an indirect object; as to
tax a man with pride.
I tax you you elements, with unkindness. --Shak.
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have
taxed their crimes. --Dryden.
Fear not now that men should tax thine honor. --M.
Arnold.
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