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strike tallies en · VERB
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(idiomatic, obsolete) To act in correspondence, or alike.
The Clergie in the Province of York did also for a long time deny the Kings Supremacy. Indeed the Convocation of York hath ever since struck Talies with that of Canterbury, though not implicitly)^([sic]) unanimously post-concurring therewith;
1655, Thomas Fuller, “Section 2”, in The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI), page 188:This great fund of the general mortgage, was not only loaded, year after year, by mighty sums borrowed upon it, but with the interest due upon those sums: for which the treasury was forced to strike tallies, payable out of that fund, after all the money already borrowed upon it, there being no other provision of interest for three or four years; till at last, the fund was so overloaded, that it could neither pay principal nor interest; and tallies were struck for both, which occasioned their great discount.
1758, Jonathan Swift, The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen:
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