单词 | poll by poll |
释义 | > as lemmaspoll by poll a. The prominent or visible part of a head in a crowd; (by extension) a person or individual in a number, list, etc. Usually in phrases, as by (the) poll, per poll, †poll by poll: for each person, one by one, individually. Cf. head n.1 10a. Now historical (but cf. poll tax n.). challenge to the polls: see challenge n. 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [noun] > individual person headOE polla1350 singular1420 specialc1450 individuala1500 particular1576 monad1855 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > [adverb] > one by one one after oneeOE one and oneeOE by one and onea1425 poll by poll?1518 one by one1548 by one1607 dinumerately1668 one-one1820 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > individual [phrase] > individually or separately > per person > by counting of heads by (the) poll1598 a1350 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 27 Of..harlotes, hors-knaues, bi pate & by polle. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 33 Payde to here lordes for every pol [?a1475 anon. transl. man; L. capite] twenty [dragmes of selver]. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 3070 (MED) Þus many deed þat day..Of pollis out of Persye..Thre hundred Mille thra men. 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 21 §2 None of the said petite Jury..shall..have any Chalenge to tharray or to any persone or poll therin being ympanelled. ?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.ijv Ye shall here the names poll by poll. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 329 (margin) The people greatly murmured for the payment of foure pence the polle. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xiii. vii. 188 There was bestowed a gift of fortie sesterces by powle to the people. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia 167 Some small tax..as a Penny vpon euery Poll, called a head-penny. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 51 Challenge to or by the Poll, is where exception is taken to any one, or more, as not indifferent. 1662 in Mag. Amer. Hist. Jan. (1884) 39 (Act of Assembly, Maryland) That every householder and freeman..should take up ten shillings per poll..for every taxable under their charge and custody. 1678 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 401 An act for raising money by the poll. 1729 G. Jacob New Law-dict. Censure, all persons..are cited to swear Fealty to the Lord, and to pay iid. per poll. 1799 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (ed. 2) III. 516 Voting by poll..and by orders. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits v. 103 Though not military, yet every common subject by the poll is fit to make a soldier of. 1923 K. Behrens Paper Money in Maryland 1727–89 ii. 13 Their right to the forty pounds of tobacco per poll. 1950 J. E. Neale Elizabethan House of Commons v. 117 Almer's supporters called for trial by the poll. 1993 J. Leamon Revolution Downeast vii. 189 Back taxes per poll, or adult male, unpaid by 1786 averaged £4.3.10. < as lemmas |
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