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单词 faculty tax
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faculty tax
5. Pecuniary ability, means, resources; possessions, property. singular and plural. Also attributive, as in faculty tax.
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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
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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].
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