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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tax  \Tax\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Taxed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Taxing}.]  [Cf.  F.  taxer.  See  {Tax},  n.] 
  1.  To  subject  to  the  payment  of  a  tax  or  taxes;  to  impose  a 
  tax  upon  to  lay  a  burden  upon  especially,  to  exact  money 
  from  for  the  support  of  government. 
 
  We  are  more  heavily  taxed  by  our  idleness,  pride, 
  and  folly  than  we  are  taxed  by  government. 
  --Franklin. 
 
  2.  (Law)  To  assess,  fix,  or  determine  judicially,  the  amount 
  of  as  to  tax  the  cost  of  an  action  in  court. 
 
  3.  To  charge;  to  accuse;  also  to  censure;  --  often  followed 
  by  with  rarely  by  of  before  an  indirect  object;  as  to 
  tax  a  man  with  pride. 
 
  I  tax  you  you  elements,  with  unkindness.  --Shak. 
 
  Men's  virtues  I  have  commended  as  freely  as  I  have 
  taxed  their  crimes.  --Dryden. 
 
  Fear  not  now  that  men  should  tax  thine  honor.  --M. 
  Arnold. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  taxing 
  adj  :  not  easily  borne;  wearing;  "the  burdensome  task  of  preparing 
  the  income  tax  return";  "my  duties  weren't  onerous;  I 
  only  had  to  greet  the  guests";  "a  taxing  schedule" 
  [syn:  {burdensome},  {onerous}] 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Taxing 
  (Luke  2:2;  R.V.,  "enrolment"),  "when  Cyrenius  was  governor  of 
  Syria,"  is  simply  a  census  of  the  people,  or  an  enrolment  of 
  them  with  a  view  to  their  taxation.  The  decree  for  the  enrolment 
  was  the  occasion  of  Joseph  and  Mary's  going  up  to  Bethlehem.  It 
  has  been  argued  by  some  that  Cyrenius  (q.v.)  was  governor  of 
  Cilicia  and  Syria  both  at  the  time  of  our  Lord's  birth  and  some 
  years  afterwards.  This  decree  for  the  taxing  referred  to  the 
  whole  Roman  world,  and  not  to  Judea  alone.  (See  {CENSUS}.) 
 




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