† ˈcessment Obs.
Also 6 cesm-, 7 ceas-, ceassement.
[var. spelling of sessment, aphetic f. assessment.]
= assessment.
| c 1540–1660 [see sessment]. 1584 Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 16 Item receaved a cesment for mending the leades, xiijs. vjd. 1613 R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3) Cessement, tribute. 1621 Molle Camerar. Liv. Libr. ii. xii. 113 The Tholousans..made a great ceassement of money, which was gathered and leuied, but with great difficultie. 1635 Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 97 A ceasment of sex penns a pound. 1645 Martin's Echo in Prynne Discov. New Blazing-Stars 44 Is it not you that pay all the Taxes, Cessements, and oppressions whatsoever. 1721–33 Strype Eccl. Mem. II. i. ii. ii. 261 To put their said order and cessement in writing. |