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Tax \Tax\, n. [F. taxe, fr. taxer to tax, L. taxare to touch,
sharply, to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr.
tangere, tactum, to touch. See {Tangent}, and cf. {Task},
{Taste}.]
1. A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed
by authority. Specifically:
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(a) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for
the support of a government.
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A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors,
proverbially the most rapacious. --Macaulay.
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(b) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon
polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a
window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.

Note: Taxes are {annual} or {perpetual}, {direct} or
{indirect}, etc.
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(c) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society
to defray its expenses.
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2. A task exacted from one who is under control; a
contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed
upon a subject.
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3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy
tax on time or health.
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4. Charge; censure. [Obs.] --Clarendon.
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5. A lesson to be learned; a task. [Obs.] --Johnson.
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{Tax cart}, a spring cart subject to a low tax. [Eng.]
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Syn: Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate;
assessment; exaction; custom; demand.
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Annual \An"nu*al\, n.
1. A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary
work published once a year.
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2. Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or
season; an annual plant.
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Oaths . . . in some sense almost annuals; . . . and
I myself can remember about forty different sets.
--Swift.
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3. (R. C. Ch.) A Mass for a deceased person or for some
special object, said daily for a year or on the
anniversary day.
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Annual \An"nu*al\ (?; 135), a. [OE. annuel, F. annuel, fr. L.
annualis, fr. annus year. Cf. {Annals}.]
1. Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming
or happening once in the year; yearly.
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The annual overflowing of the river [Nile]. --Ray.
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2. Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year;
as, the annual motion of the earth.
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A thousand pound a year, annual support. --Shak.
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2. Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season;
requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant;
annual tickets. --Bacon.
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