Crossword clues for levying
levying
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Levy \Lev"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Levied (l[e^]v"[i^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Levying.]
To raise, as a siege. [Obs.]
--Holland.-
To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription, etc.
Augustine . . . inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
--Fuller. -
To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions.
If they do this . . . my ransom, then, Will soon be levied.
--Shak. -
(Law)
To gather or exact; as, to levy money.
To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc. [Obs.]
--Cowell.
--Blackstone.-
To take or seize on execution; to collect by execution.
To levy a fine, to commence and carry on a suit for assuring the title to lands or tenements.
--Blackstone.To levy war, to make or begin war; to take arms for attack; to attack.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is levied. vb. (present participle of levy English)
Usage examples of "levying".
Their Excellencies have ordered that nothing is to impede the full levying of the army and the Guards – not even our sleep.
The wealth which he extorted ^72 from the oppressed provinces of Gaul, Spain, and Britain, was employed in levying and maintaining a formidable army of Barbarians, collected, for the most part, from the fiercest nations of Germany.
Further, the levying of armed men to his back gave discreet notice to both his peers and his superiors that in the changes which must follow the death of Hagen, Helsarn was an individual determined to gain improvement – an individual better as an ally than a foe.
Such a Levying will enter Nesdiryn history as a truly great military achievement.
The traitor must actually be caught in the act of levying war against the United States.
Having nearly undone himself (and the Constitution) with the Bollman-Swartwout ruling, he ignored, as best he could, his own previous statement that anyone who had contributed to the levying of war against the United States was as guilty as the actual leveller of war, and addressed himself to quite a different issue.
Nor shall they have power to prescribe torture in any case whatever: nor shall there be power anywhere to pardon crimes or to remit fines or punishments: nor shall any law for levying money be in force longer than [ten years] from the time of its commencement.
They consume some of our tobaccoes, which they take circuitously through Great Britain, levying heavy duties on them also.
This force forces assures the protection of the community against foreign communities, the protection of individuals against one another, the levying of soldiers, the imposition of taxes, the execution of the laws, the administration of justice and of the police.
Now the manner of levying it being once established by the farmer, it may afterwards be safely intrusted to a commission.