levyn.1
/ˈlɛvi/, U.S. /ˈlɛvi/ 1. The action of levying:in extended use.1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 51 A levy was made upon nature for every delicacy of food and wines with which to spread the table.† c. The action of collecting debts or enforcing the payment of fines. Obsolete.
a. The action of collecting an assessment, duty, tax, etc.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > taxation > [noun]
impositionc1374
taxing1413
levy1427
taxation1447
finance?c1475
taxage1483
levying1496
raisec1500
talliation1531
leviation1538
lay1558
tousting1565
stenting1587
cuttinga1599
imposing1610
assize1642
1427 Rolls of Parl. IV. 318/2 Labour and coustes hade for þe levee of þe same [revenue].
1434–5 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c (1885) 297 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 The said Maire and Baliffs have leve of the..said citsaine or deynsyn twies asmuch.
1496–7 Act 12 Hen. VII c. 12 §4 The Collectours deputed for the levy of the seid xvmes and xmes nowe graunted.
1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 19 §7 Suche direccion and order for the levey and payment therof as..shall theyr seme requysyte.
1635 in Rec. Mass. Bay (1853) I. 134 The constable of Dorchestr is ffined xxs for not retorneing his warrant for the last levy into the Court.
1714 R. Steele Lover No. 16 (1723) 94 Sir Anthony stole the manner of this Levy from Lord Peters Invention.
1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I II. x. 252 The sole object of the Government was to settle the legal levy of the duties.
1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xxxviii. 315 He decreed the levy of a rate of one twentieth upon the succession to property.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People v. §4. 244 In the eastern counties its levy [poll-tax] gathered crowds of peasants together.
b. The action of enrolling or collecting men for war or other purposes.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [noun] > levying or mobilizing
hosting1422
levying1496
amass1567
uptakinga1578
levya1616
array1640
colonelling1663
mobilification1794
levy in mass1807
levée en masse1813
arrayal1818
mobilization1848
call-out1882
mobilizing1901
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. vi. 67 To..giue away The benefit of our Leuies . View more context for this quotation
a1653 H. Binning Serm. (1845) 490 What meant the Levy appointed immediately after Dunbar.
1843 G. P. R. James Forest Days I. x. 198 Arrange with bold Robin for a levy of as many yeomen as possible.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany viii. 107 The Government endeavoured to carry out the celebrated levy of three hundred thousand men.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxi. 354 As to the levies, the men enlist unwillingly.
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society > authority > punishment > fine > [noun] > infliction of
levy1463
unlawing1478
fining1548
fine-setting1657
society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > [noun] > collecting debts
levy1463
dun1673
debt-collecting1897
1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 43 That my executours..make levy of my dettys.
1702 J. Logan in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1870) IX. 150 As to fines—I have promoted and pressed their levy in this county to my utmost.
2. The amount or number levied:in extended use.1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab x. 192 The only levy on our stores had been four bottles of raki.
a. †A duty, impost, tax. Obsolete. In a trade or benefit society: A call or contribution of so much per head.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > [noun]
yieldc950
tollc1000
tolne1023
mailOE
lotlOE
ransomc1325
tail1340
pensiona1387
contribution1387
scat gild14..
due1423
responsionc1447
impositionc1460
devoirs1503
excisea1513
toloney1517
impost1569
cast1597
levy1640
responde1645
reprise1818
society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > share contributed by individual > by member of guild, union, or society
pension1431
levy1640
pension money1663
1640 in Virginia Mag. Hist. & Biogr. V. 364 Francis Moryson..being appointed to collect and receive the levy belonging to Mr. George Sandys.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 33 Offa charged this leavy upon the inhabitants dwelling in nine severall Diocesses.
1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes Pref. Great and heavy Leavies upon a poor people.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 171 None but Kings have Pow'r to raise A Levy, which the Subject pays.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. viii. 280 The other ancient levies were in the nature of a modern land-tax.
1901 Scotsman 8 Mar. 5/4 It was decided to call up a special levy from next week to cover the amount necessary.
b. A body of men enrolled; also plural the individual men.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > conscript
levy1611
pressman1638
forced man1748
lotman1758
conscript1798
draftee1866
draft1916
chocolate soldier1939
choco1940
selectee1940
G.I.1943
national serviceman1949
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > conscript > collectively
levy1611
conscription1800
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings v. 13 The leuie was thirtie thousand men. View more context for this quotation
1642 King Charles I Message High Court Parl. 8 Apr. 4 With the addition of these Leavies.
1775 J. Trumbull in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 37 Our new levies will be at your camp with all convenient expedition.
1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1836) VI. 475 It has brought the Portuguese levies into action.
1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. vi. 78 I teach singing to the youths of the Connecticut levy.
1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 181 The levy was to consist of 1058 horse, and 3038 foot.
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xviii. xii. 290 Daun..is..perfecting his new levies.
1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 340 The Danes..put the irregular English levies to flight.
1887 M. Morris Claverhouse (1888) x. 177 Some new levies of horse.
3. levy in mass n. [French levée en masse] a levy of all the able-bodied men in a country or district for military service.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [noun] > levying or mobilizing
hosting1422
levying1496
amass1567
uptakinga1578
levya1616
array1640
colonelling1663
mobilification1794
levy in mass1807
levée en masse1813
arrayal1818
mobilization1848
call-out1882
mobilizing1901
1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. I. xvi. 179 The levy in mass, the telegraph, and the income-tax are all from France.
1830 W. Taylor Hist. Surv. German Poetry III. 425 Körner..stimulated the levy-in-mass of the nation.
4. In some public schools: A meeting called for discussion of any matter relating to the school.
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1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. viii. 190 A levy of the School, had been held, at which the captain of the School had got up, and, after premising that [etc.].
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. viii. 191 A levy of the sixth had been held on the subject.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. ix. 233 Holmes called a levy of his house.
Compounds
levy-money n. †(a) bounty-money paid to recruits; (b) contributions called for from the members of a trade or benefit society.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > extra payments > on joining the forces
levy-money1671
bounty-money1692
bounty1702
bringing money1892
1671 R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 503 To learn at what rate they may have men, both as to the levy-money and the constant pay.
1702 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 134 That there be allowed for levy money for the dragoons, £12 for man and horse.
1778 Ann. Reg. 1777 70/1 An unexpected demand made by the Landgrave of Hesse for levy money.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 16 July 2/3 The..refusal of the Federationists to share with them the English levy money.
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levyn.2
/ˈlɛvi/, U.S. /ˈlɛvi/ †(a) (See quot. 1859.) (b) U.S. regional ‘The sum of twelve and a half cents; a “bit”’ ( Cent. Dict.). Also British regional, a shilling (obsolete).
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1829 ‘C. Sealsfield’ Tokeah II. ii. 22 ‘But them fips and levies,’ throwing a dirty leather bag with a dozen small silver coins upon the table, ‘must first go.’
1832 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 2) I. xii. 175 He drew from thence [sc. from his pocket] rather more dollars, half-dollars, levies, and fips.., than his dirty little hand could well hold.
1834 Knickerbocker Mag. 3 349 I was soon eased on this point by an affirmation..that a levy was a coin; corresponding..to a New-York shilling.
1837–47 J. C. Neal Charcoal Sketches: Crooked Disciple (1872) 204 (Funk) Give us a fip's worth of sheet and levy's worth of blanket.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Levy,..In..Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, the Spanish real..twelve and a half cents. Sometimes called an elevenpenny bit.
1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 170 Levy, a shilling.—Liverpool.
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levyv.
/ˈlɛvi/, U.S. /ˈlɛvi/ 1. † b. To raise (a sum of money) as a profit or rent; to collect (the amount of) a debt; also, to take the revenues of (land). Obsolete.absolute.1885 Law Times 78 389/2 An execution creditor..levied on their goods for the purpose of realising his debt.
a. transitive. To raise (contributions, taxes); to impose (an assessment, rate, toll, etc.). Const. †of, on, upon.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > [verb (transitive)] > levy (an impost, tax, or due)
levy1388
level1552
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > taxation > levy (a tax) [verb (transitive)]
taxc1290
araisec1386
levy1388
raise1389
cess1495
fine1570
cut1596
impose1600
1388–9 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 292 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 If the Maire..wil not leve and areyse the said xl.s.
1509–10 Act 1 Hen. VIII c. 19 Preamble Your said Oratour..levyed severall Fynes of all the foresaid Manours.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxxxxviii. f. cxiiv The which...was leuyed of his Subiectes, and named..Dane Gelt.
1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Dvv To leauye greate fines or to ouer the rent.
1608 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 60 A sesment of ijs. the pounde shalbe leveyed presently through this parish.
a1674 Earl of Clarendon Brief View Leviathan (1676) 170 That he hath power to leavy mony.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) 30 Bank keepers..must have power to levy upon the general, what they happen to loose unto particular men.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 104 Ship-money was levied with the same severity; and the same rigour used in Ecclesiastical Courts.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. vi. 104 The Pension..is levyed by the Emperor's Officers.
1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings in Wks. (1842) II. 135 Levying the tribute of the whole on the little that remained.
1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I II. v. 129 [They] declared, that these rates could no longer be levied without a grant of Parliament.
1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. xxviii. 241 A fine should be levied.
1853 C. Brontë Villette I. xiv. 250 A subscription was annually levied on the whole school for the purchase of a handsome present.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §6. 90 No toll might be levied from tenants of the Abbey farms.
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society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > pay debt [verb (transitive)] > collect debt
levy1469
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > bring in (a revenue)
raise1389
levy1469
to pull in?1529
to fetch again1535
to bring in?1548
yield1573
produce1585
answer1596
in1609
render1687
net1758
rent1775
realize1777
earn1847
recoup1868
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > take the revenues of (land)
levy1469
1469 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 48 That the ferme of the seid londys..go to myne doughter Margerye tyll the summe of x marke be levyed for the seid Margerye.
1496 W. Paston in Paston Lett. III. 469 For as moche as..my dettis cannot be redely levied.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xxix. 43 He..wolde leuey the moyte of their landes to his owne vse.
1613 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 162 My..mynde is yt he enter into the said tenemente and hould the same vntill owte of the revenewes therof he shall have levyed the same.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 419 To hold, till out of the rents and profits thereof the debt be levied.
c. To raise (a sum of money) by legal execution or process. Const. on (the goods of). Also, to levy execution for (a specified sum).
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal proceedings [verb (transitive)] > raise money by legal process
levyc1506
c1506 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 198 The berer shall goe to the Shereff with this exigent, & have from him a warrant to leve the sayd money, or els to take your body.
1670 A. Marvell Let. 10 Mar. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 101 [The fine] shall be levyd on the goods of any one or more persons that were there.
1795 G. Wythe Decis. Cases Virginia 13 By directing the execution to be levied for £1,000.
d. To impose (service) upon; to require (a person's) attendance.
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society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > impose
setc888
layOE
to lay on11..
enjoin?c1225
join1303
adjoina1325
cark1330
taxa1375
puta1382
impose1581
aggravate1583
fasten1585
clap1609
levy1863
octroy1865
society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > compel [verb (transitive)] > force or impose something upon
to lay on11..
join1303
taxa1375
intruse?a1500
oversetc1500
beforcec1555
impose1581
threap1582
fasten1585
intrude1592
thrust1597
enforcea1616
forcea1616
entail1670
top1682
trump1694
push1723
coerce1790
press1797
inflict1809
levy1863
octroy1865
wish1915
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings ix. 21 Vpon those did Solomon leuie a tribute of bond-seruice vnto this day. View more context for this quotation]
1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. x. 237 They willingly undertook the tributary service which was levied upon them.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. xxi. 217 Ho, there! my friend! I'll levy thine attendance.
e. U.S. = charge v. 18.
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1837 J. C. Calhoun Wks. III. 36 Mr. Madison, under the impression that these papers would be favorably received by the Public..had levied several legacies upon them.
f. To impose a levy on (a person). Also reflexive.
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1902 Westm. Gaz. 17 June 9/1 The members will be levied 1s. yearly to support their candidate.
1921 Westm. Gaz. 24 May 2/4 When the stoppage ceases the miners will levy themselves in order to meet these promissory notes.
2.
a. Law. to levy a fine: see fine n.1 9b. (The expression also occurs with different sense: see 1.)
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1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 7 §1 Notes and Fines levied in the King's Courts..should be openly and solemnly read.
1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. iv. §256. 114 If..either of them levie a fyne unto other of the same land.
1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. 7 If the fine was proved to have been duly levied, then the party who refused to adhere to it, was attached.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 420 When a fine was levied..the estate was in the cognizee or feoffee..by the common law.
1845 J. Williams Princ. Law Real Prop. i. ii. 45 She was also prohibited from levying a fine.
b. To draw up (an objection, protest) in due form.
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society > law > legal document > [verb (transitive)] > draw up document
raise1436
imbreve?a1600
levy1660
1660 E. Stillingfleet Irenicum i. i. 7 This objection will be soon leavyed, that it is [etc.].
1868 E. Seyd Bullion 82 He must send the Bill to a Notary..who then levies Protest in due form.
a. To set up (a fence, weir, etc.); to erect (a house); = Anglo-Norman lever, Law Latin levare.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > build or construct [verb (transitive)]
timbera900
workOE
betimberOE
craftOE
buildc1275
lifta1300
stagec1330
upraise1338
wright1338
edifya1340
to make outa1382
to make upa1382
biga1400
housea1400
risea1400
telda1400–50
to work upa1450
redress1481
levy1495
upmake1507
upbuild1513
exstruct?c1550
construct1663
to run up1686
practise1739
to lay up1788
elevate1798
to put up1818
to lay down1851
practicate1851
1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 5 Weares and other Engynes for fisshing ther made levyed fixed.
1513 in T. Fowler Hist. Corpus Christi Coll. (1893) 60 The sayd Master and Prior of St. Frideswith hath begunne to build and levie one house for a College.
1549 Act 3 & 4 Edw. VI c. 3 §2 It hapneth sometime, that some Man..hath made or levied a Ditch or Hedge.
1630 M. Dalton Countrey Justice (rev. ed.) l. 135 The new levying or inhancing of Weares, Mills [etc.].
1742 C. Viner Gen. Abridgm. Law & Equity XVI. 23 Levying of a Goss to intercept the Course of Fish.
b. To plan out (ground).
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1500–18 Extracts Bk. Building Louth Steeple (modernized text) in Archaeologia (1792) 10 74 Paid to William Thomas and William Palmer, levying the ground for to sett the broach upon.
c. To weigh (an anchor).
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor (a ship) [verb (transitive)] > anchor (a ship) > loose (ship) from anchor > weigh (anchor)
weigh?a1400
loosec1440
rear?c1475
levy1648
sway1790
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) xxi. 195 We levying our anchor went on to Panama.
4. To enlist (armed men), enrol, bring into the field (soldiers, an army); to muster the available force of (a district). Also, to levy up.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > levy or mobilize
make?a1160
host1297
arear1366
araisec1386
raisea1425
to call to account1434
rearc1450
levyc1500
riga1513
erect1520
leave1590
to call to arms1592
compound1614
re-embody1685
mobilize1853
remobilize1886
c1500 Melusine (1895) 135 The men of armes, that he leuyed fro the garnysons.
1557 Act 4 & 5 Philip & Mary c. 3 §1 To muster their Maties People..and to levie a nomber of them for the Service of their Maties.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) v. sig. Pp2v With sufficient authoritie to leauie forces.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. vi. §10. 75 This was the last fight of that huge Armie leauied against Greece.
1671 L. Addison W. Barbary 40 A small Cavila, not able to levy above 500 in all.
a1676 H. Guthry Mem. (1702) 45 The General and his Council appointed the Earl of Montross..to levy Fife, Strathern, Angus, and Merne.
1761–2 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) IV. lxiv. 745 An army of twelve thousand men was suddenly levied.
1797 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 17 Tippoo Sultaun suffered the military force which they had levied..to land in his country.
1843 H. Gavin Feigned & Factitious Dis. 11 Men apprehensive of being levied, or actually levied, or forced into the military or naval services.
5. To undertake, commence, make (war). Const. against, on, upon.Johnson says: ‘This sense, though Milton's, seems improper’, presumably because there is no similar use of French lever; but it is a natural development from sense 4.
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society > armed hostility > war > wage (war) [verb (transitive)]
workeOE
war1390
levy1471
wagec1485
lead1508
1471 in Warkworth's Chron. (Camd.) 57 To levee werre ayenst him.
1543–4 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 12 The kynge..is forced.. to leuy warre, and to prosecute his saide ennemies.
1660 R. Allestree Private Devotions in Gentlemans Calling 169 So levying war against Thee with thine own Treasure.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 219 The Syrian King..Assassin-like had levied Warr, Warr unproclam'd. View more context for this quotation
a1720 J. Sheffield Wks. (1753) II. 111 A meer design of deposition, imprisonment, or levying war, are not within the bare words of this law.
1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. I. xi. 238 They..then proceeded without further ceremony to levy war upon the king.
1789 Constitution U.S. iii. §3 in archives.gov (accessed 18 Dec. 2019) Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them.
1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. xxvii. 47 [Those] that do levy war On the baptized.
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. vii. vi. 250 Crusades will hereafter be levied against those who dared impiously to [etc.].
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > camping or encamping > pitch (tent or camp) [verb (transitive)] > break up or clear of tents
untelda1400
levy1542
discamp1566
untent1609
strike1707
society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > lay siege [verb (intransitive)] > abandon siege
levy1542
rise1665
1542 in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) IX. 201 The segge beynge lewed from beforre the towne of Pest the 7th day of October.
?1548 King Edward VI Jrnl. in Lit. Rem. (Roxb.) II. 223 The sieg being levied th'erle of Shrewsbery entred it.
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin vi. 351 There was made no more doubt to leauie the campe.
1588 Exhort. to Faithf. Subj. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 102 Porcenna..forthwith levied the siege.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxvi. x. 925 Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied..yet [etc.].
1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1629) 74 They sent Ambassadours againe to Athens commanding them to leuy the Siege from before Potidæa.
7. Used for level v.1
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the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > aim at
mete1598
rove1598
levy1618
mean1633
to cover (with a gun, pistol, etc.)1693
to draw a bead upon1831
target1837
sight1871
bead1888
the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > aim at > aim (a blow, weapon, etc.)
reachOE
seta1300
shapec1400
ettlec1450
charge1509
bend1530
level1530
aimc1565
butt1594
levy1618
to give level to1669
wise1721
intenda1734
train1795
sight1901
to zero in1944
1618 N. Breton Court & Country (Grosart) 6/1 Winking with one eye, as though hee were leuying at a Woodcocke.
a1635 T. Randolph Poems (1638) 26 Fam'd Stymphall, I have heard, thy birds in flight Shoot showers of arrowes forth all levied right.
Derivatives
ˈlevied adj.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [adjective] > relating to mobilization > levied or mobilized
new-raised?1609
levied1768
mobilized1851
1768 D. Hume Ess. xxxiii. 243 How distinguish the new from the old levied soldiers?
1819 R. Chapman Life James V 160 They are only new levied men, and undisciplined.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. 105 A new levied band of hunters and trappers.
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