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cess
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Word definitions for cess in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cess \Cess\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cessed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Cessing .] To rate; to tax; to assess. --Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"tax, levy," 1530s, short for assess (q.v.).
Usage examples of cess.
Clan Campbell, bad cess to them all, have been proving unexpectedly successful of late in many fields.
Lord Wharncliffe then moved that the produce of tax imposed upon the clergy should be appropriated to the augmentation of small livings, and that the commissioners should not have power to apply it to other purposes for which parish cess was levied.
During last winter an epidemic of destruction broke out, the effect of which may be seen in the large amount added to the county cess to give compensation to the injured persons.
A very slight acquaintance with them excites amazement that cess, rent, or anything else can be extracted from the utterly wretched cabins looking on the broad Atlantic.
One of the men from Cess, the wine merchants, a sulky-looking middle-aged man who ate in silence in a corner, who was disgusted with everything, with the cooking, because it was different, with the way the tabla was laid, with the white wine he was given instead of the red he was used to.
Lord Wharncliffe then moved that the produce of tax imposed upon the clergy should be appropriated to the augmentation of small livings, and that the commissioners should not have power to apply it to other purposes for which parish cess was levied.
Now, as she prepares for her toughest assignment yet, she faces not only a sensation-driven press corps and political maneuvering, but her ex-lover as attorney-for-the-defense and bestselling true crime all thor Jay Butler Brooks, who has been granted total acJ cess to the case.
Clan Campbell, bad cess to them all, have been proving unexpectedly successful of late in many fields.
Strictly speaking, he should have sealed each paper with wax, and stamped it with his Family ring and crest, but Owen still had the ring, bad cess to the man.
He'll take a new face and a new identity, and that will be the end of Clan Campbell, bad cess to the name.
My lady, I'll take myself off the now, and bad cess to me for being such an oaf as to put a gloom on your wedding day.
But as for you, Tom me boy, ye're no pal o' mine to have sent him afther me, bad cess to ye.
She nevere cessed, as I writen fynde, Of hir preyere, and God to love and drede, Bisekynge hym to kepe hir maydenhede.
Thre dayes lyved she in this torment, And nevere cessed hem the feith to teche.
Its twin masts were raked and its cabins were re cessed deep into the decking both fore and aft, adding to the long, smooth look.