单词 | exciseman |
释义 | excisemann. An officer employed to collect excise duties and prevent infringement of the excise laws. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > collector of duty on goods tollerc1000 tolnerc1050 toll-gatherer1382 customer1389 toll-reeve1433 pennytollerc1450 toll-taker1555 toll-farmer1556 publicana1563 custom officer1644 exciseman1647 toll-mastera1649 custom house officer1654 toll-customera1681 customs officer1705 hoppo1711 ride officer1799 toll-collector1822 excisor1835 customs agent1838 custom-houser1865 1647 S. Sheppard (title) The Committee Man curried..A Comedy..discovering the corruption of Committee-men and Excise-men. 1681 H. Prideaux Lett. (1875) 107 The mayor haveing unreasonably taken many licences for ale houses without a legal cause, the excisemen came and complained to the Vice-Chancellor of it. a1704 T. Brown Table-talk in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 40 A broken Shopkeeper ends in an Exciseman. 1789 J. Pilkington View Derbyshire I. viii. 405 Mathematical rulers and excisemen's gauging sticks. 1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 309 To-morrow he must go drudge as an Exciseman. 1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. iv. iii. 557 The exciseman can..visit the malt-house whenever he pleases. Derivatives exˈcisemanship n. the office of exciseman. ΚΠ 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (F. Hall). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1647 |
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