tallage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   historical: a tax or compulsory payment levied by a feudal lord or monarch on tenants, towns, or royal lands

   The crown imposed a new tallage on several towns within the royal domain.

2. 2
   verb

   historical: to impose tallage on a person, community, or property

   The lord claimed the right to tallage his tenants whenever extraordinary revenue was needed.

From Middle English tallage and Anglo-French taillage, from tailler ('to cut, assess, tax'). The underlying image is of a share cut from a person's property or income; tailor belongs to the same word family.

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