taxed, ppl. a.
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[f. tax v. + -ed1.]
1. † a. Assessed, determined by authority. Obs. b. Subjected to a tax. Of a motor vehicle: having had excise duty paid for the current period.
| 1483 Cath. Angl. 378/2 Taxed, taxatus. 1552 Huloet, Taxed, census. Ibid., Taxed by the pole,..capite census. 1689 Burnet Tracts I. 5 To buy of it at a taxed price. 1773 Taxed duty [see 2 c]. 1776 Adam Smith W.N. v. ii. (1828) III. 446 The rise in the price of the taxed commodities. 1842 W. C. Taylor Anc. Hist. xvii. §8 (ed. 3) 544 His payment of the tax, by buying the taxed article, seems to be voluntary. 1933 Motor 2 May (Suppl.) 99/3 (Advt.), Riley... 4-door coachbuilt sunshine saloon.., maroon, taxed. 1976 Jrnl. (Newcastle) 26 Nov., (Advt.), Volvo 144 Saloon 1974 N regn, orange, red striped upholstery, taxed Oct. '77. |
2. In special collocations. a. taxed cart, a two-wheeled (orig. springless) open cart drawn by one horse, and used mainly for agricultural or trade purposes, on which was charged only a reduced duty (afterwards taken off entirely).
| 1795 Act 35 Geo. III, c. 109 §2 For and upon every Carriage with less than four Wheels,..which shall have the Words ‘A taxed Cart’, and also the Owner's Name and Place of Abode, there shall be charged and paid the yearly Sum of ten Shillings. 1801 W. Felton Carriages Suppl. vi. 115 Taxed Carts. 1837 Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) IV. 279 The remission of taxation upon what by an odd perversion is called a taxed cart. 1859 Geo. Eliot A. Bede xxxviii, The inn-keeper..offered to take him back to Oakbourne in his own ‘taxed cart’. |
b. taxed costs: see quot.
| 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Taxed-costs, the allowed charges of a solicitor, which have been legally examined and assessed before a taxing-master. |
c. taxed ward, formerly, in Scottish land tenure, a wardship in which a fixed annual sum was paid to the superior in lieu of the whole profits.
| 1603 Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. i. VI. 545 To grant the warde landis in taxt warde. 1710 Fountainhall in M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. (1826) IV. 788 Part of the lands holding black or simple-ward, and part taxed-ward. 1773 Erskine Instit. ii. v. §5 If the ward was taxed, the minor retained the possession, and the superior had nothing to demand but the yearly taxed duty. |