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unˈtaxed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. G. untaxirt, older Da. utaxeret in sense 2.]
†1. Unassailed; unchallenged. Obs.
c1460Oseney Reg. 17 Ordeynyng þat all maner possessions..sure to yow..vntaxid abyde. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. vii. §7 In common speech (which leaves no virtue untaxed) he was called..a divider of cummin seed. 1645G. Daniel Poems Wks. (Grosart) II. 101 May not I,..To my best Child, Vtter a Truth vntax'd? a1691Boyle Hist. Air (1692) 76 A mistake that must not pass untaxed amongst learned men.
2. Not required to pay taxes.
1464–5in Acta Parlt. Scotl. (1875) XII. 31/2 Any personis..within þe boundis of thare office vntaxt. 1746Warton Progr. Discontent 119, I..din'd untax'd, untroubled, under The portrait of our pious founder. 1776Adam Smith W.N. v. ii. (1904) II. 513 Those who exercise the untaxed employments. 1826Lamb Wks. (1908) I. 389 The Beadle..looks like a whole parish, full, important—but untaxed. 1835Lytton Rienzi ix. iv, To live unbutchered by the Barons, and untaxed by their governors.
Add:[2.] b. Of money or a commodity: not subject to taxation; that has not had tax paid on it.
1846Peel Sp. 28 June in J. McCarthy Hist. Own Times (1879) I. xvi. 412 When [working men]..shall recreate their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food. 1848[see below prep. 6]. 1972Times 18 May 26/4, I declare all such items of untaxed income in my annual return. 1989Guardian 28 July 4/8 He..lost his driving licence after he and another man were caught by police driving a van which was untaxed and uninsured. |