单词 | pollage |
释义 | † pollagen. Obsolete (rare after 16th cent.). The exaction of money, esp. by extortion; (in later use) a poll tax. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [noun] extortionc1340 askingc1400 extort power1492 exactiona1513 bribing1533 extort1541 pollage?1542 bloodsucking1548 scaffery1555 eviction1560 wringing1589 wresting1611 screwing1680 squeezing1681 extortinga1711 wringing1730 over-pull1867 Rachmanism1963 Rachmanship1963 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > poll tax > exaction of pollage?1542 capitation?1608 ?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xxiii. sig. F7 Some wil say yes, his tributys and other pollagys be taken from him. a1563 J. Bale Brefe Comedy Iohan Baptystes in Harleian Misc. (1744) I. 105 A publicane I am, and moch do lyve by pollage. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. E7 As though these pollages and pillages were not ill inough. 1894 Pop. Sc. Monthly 44 299 In Switzerland this pollage is still levied. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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