tallage

English

Etymology

From French taillage, from tailler (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtælɪd͡ʒ/

Noun

tallage (countable and uncountable, plural tallages)

1. An impost.
2. (Britain, law, obsolete or historical) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants toward the public expenses.
   • 1765, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, book I (Of the Rights of Persons), Oxford: […] Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522:

     The land tax, in its modern shape, has superseded all the former methods of rating either property, or persons in respect of their property, whether by tenths or fifteenths, subsidies on land, hidages, scutages, or tallages

Alternative forms

• talliage, tailage, taillage

Translations

medieval tax

• Latin: tallagium

Verb

tallage (third-person singular simple present tallages, present participle tallaging, simple past and past participle tallaged)

1. To lay an impost upon.
2. To cause to pay tallage.

Derived terms

• tallageable

Anagrams

• Latgale, gallate