cessment
English
editEtymology
editFrom cess + -ment. See cess (verb).
Noun
editcessment (plural cessments)
- (obsolete) An assessment or tax.
- 1652, Prudencio de SANDOVAL, The Civil Wars in Spain:
- charge the Kingdom with a new Cessment of four hundred chousand Duckers
References
edit- “cessment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.