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To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.transitive
- to levy a tax
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To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
- If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied.
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To draft someone into military service.
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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.
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To wage war.
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To raise, as a siege.
- Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied
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To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
- The new levying or inhancing of Weares Mills
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The act of levying.
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The act of levying.; A conscription action.
- 1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece A levy of all the men left under sixty.
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The things or people so levied.; A tax.
- The Irish levies.
- The first is that French people are more concerned about the poor health of their democracy – since the carbon levy they have campaigned for democratic reform (though this has proven harder to deliver than the tax U-turn).
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The things or people so levied.; A tax.
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The things or people so levied.; Requisitioned supplies.
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The things or people so levied.; A body of conscripts.
- To make up for their losses at the battle they [the professional army of Harold II, Anglo-Saxon King of England] had gathered levies of men from the counties they passed through on their way south. […] Ranged alongside these professionals w
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A shilling.obsoleteslang
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The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.PennsylvaniaUSVirginia