单词 | exactor |
释义 | exactorn. 1. One who exacts: (in Latin senses) a. An officer who levies or collects tribute, taxes, or customs; a tax-collector. archaic. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > tax collection > [noun] > tax-collector catchpoleOE publicanc1175 tallagerc1400 leviera1513 vectigal1535 renter?1536 task-gatherer1552 exactor1570 uptaker1576 exacter1596 mise-gatherer1597 taxer1603 tax-taker1610 raiser1611 summonitor1617 summonisterc1625 riding officer1675 zamindar1683 tax-gatherer1693 desai1698 amildar1761 amil1763 collector1772 tax-master1796 tehsildar1799 taxman1803 tax-receiver1830 tax-collector1833 the taxes1874 revenuer1877 revenue1880 levyist1923 T-man1938 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. f. 365v/2 The Popes exactours went about to extort from the Churchmen the fift part of their goodes. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. lx. 17 I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactours righteousnesse. View more context for this quotation 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 3) I. iii. 99 (note) The word [Reeve], under the form of Grieve, has changed from a public to a private exactor. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > [noun] > other specific officers of justice exactora1425 marshal1611 centgrave1647 custos rotulorum1683 custos1739 awarder1826 protocol1865 a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Deut. xvi. 18 (margin) Exactours ben thei that enqueren the truthe bi mesurable betingis and turmentis; and performen the sentence of iugis. 1582 Bible (Rheims) Luke xii. 58 Lest..the iudge deliuer thee to the exactour [1611 officer] and the exactour cast thee into prison. c. One whose duty it is to enforce the performance of work; a taskmaster. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to status > [noun] > overseer or foreman > taskmaster taskmaster1530 tasker1598 task-lord1606 exactor1609 task-man1856 task-officer1859 1609 Bible (Douay) I. Exod. v. 6 He commanded in that day the overseers of the workes and the exactores of the people. 1611 Bible (King James) Job xxxix. 7 Neither regardeth he the cry of the driver [margin. exactor] . View more context for this quotation 2. One who makes illegal or unjustifiable exactions; an extortioner, oppressor. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [noun] > one who wringera1300 askera1325 extortionerc1375 exactor1382 scaffer?a1513 shaver1534 caterpillar1541 bloodsucker?1555 suck-purse1586 griper1587 extortor1590 exacter1596 extorter1605 barathrum1609 wreather1648 shark1713 vampire1741 bleeder1846 flayer1865 extortionist1885 Shylock1894 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Zech. ix. 8 The exactoure, or the vniust axer, shal na more passe vpon hem. 1577 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture (new ed.) sig. E.iiv Bee not an exactour of another man. 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 672 Prouided..he become not prodigal, which would soone make him an exactor. 1650 tr. N. Caussin Angel of Peace 45 No force of treasure is comparable to the greedinesse of the exactours themselves. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. vii. 604 Whatever it was the pleasure of the exactor to take. 1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism v. 108 The warfare against ghostly exactors. 3. One who demands, lays claim to, or insists upon (something) as a matter of right; often with the added notion of excess. Const. of. ΘΚΠ society > authority > strictness > [noun] > exactingness > exacting person exacter1561 exactora1620 ball-breaker1950 society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [noun] > compelling the fulfilment or performance of > one who exacter1561 exactora1620 a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. vi. §2. 42 As they reposed great Religion in an oath, in respect of the Actor: so did they likewise, in respect of the Exactor. 1649 Εἰκων Βασιλικη 146 The will of my Enemies seems to be their onely rule..their success the exactor of what they please to call justice. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. iii. 197 He was then an exactor of certain punctilioes. 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 193. ⁋6 There are unmerciful exactors of adulation, who withhold the wages of venality. 1828 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 37 218 So severe an exactor of accuracy..ought to be more observant of it himself. 1875 ‘A. R. Hope’ My Schoolboy Friends 10 As the exactor of tasks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1382 |
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