talliable, a. Now Hist.
(ˈtælɪəb(ə)l)
Also 6–7 taillable.
[a. OF. taillable (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), f. tailler, tail v.2; assimilated to tally v.]
Subject to tallage, liable to be ‘tailed’ or taxed.
| [1321–2 Rolls of Parlt. I. 410/1, Qe lur tenaunz..ne seient geldables ne taillables.] 1531 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 98 They be tallyable with the Burgesses. 1575 Ibid. 371 Persons..talliable with scotte, lotte, and other charges as like occupiers. 1554 Wotton Let. 29 July in State Pap. Mary, Foreign IV. 193 (P.R.O.) The king [of France] pronounced their sentences..somme..to be degraded from their nobilite.. they were..pronounced to be taillable as anye other villaine. 1600 Holland Livy xxxv. xvi. 897 Having..been made tributarie and taillable, he chalengeth of them the auncient rights & duties due from them. 1720 Strype Stow's Surv. II. v. xxvii. 359/2 They understood, that they of the City of London were not talliable. 1759 Hurd Dialogues (1760) 270 The great towns and cities that before were royal demesnes, part of the king's private patrimony, and talliable by him at pleasure. |