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    Tax , n. [F. taxe, fr. taxer to tax, L. taxare to touch, sharply, to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr. tangere, tactum, to touch. See Tangent, and cf. Task, Taste.]
    1. A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority. Specifically: --
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      (a) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.
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      A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors, proverbially the most rapacious.
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      (b) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like. Taxes are annual or perpetual, direct or indirect, etc.
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      (c) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.
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    2. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
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    3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.
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    4. Charge; censure. [Obs.]
      Clarendon.

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    5. A lesson to be learned; a task. [Obs.]
      Johnson.

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      Tax cart, a spring cart subject to a low tax. [Eng.]
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      Syn. -- Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate; assessment; exaction; custom; demand.
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    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.
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      We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride, and folly than we are taxed by government.
      Franklin.

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    2. (Law) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.
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    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.
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      I tax you, you elements, with unkindness.
      Shak.

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      Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
      Dryden.

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      Fear not now that men should tax thine honor.
      M. Arnold.

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