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cess
1[ ses ]
noun
- British. a tax, assessment, or lien.
- (in Scotland) a land tax.
- (in Ireland) a military assessment.
- (in India) an import or sales tax on a commodity.
verb (used with object)
- British. to tax; assess.
cess
2[ ses ]
noun
- luck (usually used in the expression bad cess to ):
Bad cess to them!
cess
3/ sɛs /
noun
- any of several special taxes, such as a land tax in Scotland
- formerly, in Ireland
- the obligation to provide the soldiers and household of the lord deputy with supplies at fixed prices
- any military exaction
verb
- tr to tax or assess for taxation
- (formerly in Ireland) to impose (soldiers) upon a population, to be supported by them
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Example Sentences
He was to have all wardships and marriages, and the Dublin government was to have no power of imposing any cess or tax.
Further clauses indict the inferior ministers occupied about the cess.
The contention that cess was altogether illegal did not recommend itself to the Queen or her Ministers.
As for the cess, money must be had somehow, for he had been forced to spend largely on the repair of Limerick Castle.
The word leve or leave has very much the same signification as the word cense or cess.
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