单词 | faculty tax |
释义 | > as lemmasfaculty tax 5. Pecuniary ability, means, resources; possessions, property. singular and plural. Also attributive, as in faculty tax. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] goodeOE auchtOE havingc1350 facultya1382 substancea1382 propertya1393 haviourc1400 suffisantee1436 aversc1440 propriety1442 livinga1450 goodess1523 gear1535 prog1727 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > resources facultya1382 myance?a1513 moyen1547 facility1555 means1560 resource1611 foisona1616 wherewith1674 asset1677 stock-in-tradea1806 wherewithal1809 possibles1823 bag of tricks1841 potential1941 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Tobit i. 25 Tobie is turned aȝeen to his hous, and al his faculte restorid to hym. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxxi. 14 Han we eny thing of residewe in faculteis and erytage of the hows of oure fader? 1490 Arte & Crafte to knowe well to Dye (Caxton) 11 Wylt thou the thynges that thou hast taken be by the restored after the value of thy faculte. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) i. 620 The faculties This house is seised of. 1649 tr. Alcoran 47 Restore to them [Orphans] their faculties, and devour them not unjustly before they be of age. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. 28 If so heavy an expence surpassed the faculties or the inclination of the magistrates..the sum was supplied from the Imperial treasury. 1789 A. Young Jrnl. 10 June in Trav. France (1792) i. 104 The prices..are beyond their faculties, and occasion great misery. 1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1815) VIII. 356 We raise no faculty tax. We preserve [? read presume] the faculty from the expence. 1889 Cent. Dict. Faculty... 6. In the law of divorce (commonly in the plural), the pecuniary ability of the husband, in view of both his property and his capacity to earn money, with reference to which the amount of the wife's alimony is fixed. 1894 [see faculty theory n. at Compounds 2]. 1965 [see faculty theory n. at Compounds 2]. < as lemmas |
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