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tallageability en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈtælɪd͡ʒəbɪləti/
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Etymology

Etymology tree Old French taillier French tailler French taillageder. Middle English tallage English tallage Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin -abilitas Middle French -abletébor. Middle English -ablete English -ability English tallageability From tallage + -ability.

Meanings

1. Extent to which someone is tallageable.
   • These lists served to give the King a clue as to the tallageability of the Jews, and afforded him a means of compensation in case they did not pay the impost. 1888 May 31, “The English Exchequer of the Jews”, in The Nation, volume XLVI, number 1196, New York: The Evening Post Publishing Company, via the Internet Archive, page 443:
   • In the thirteenth century there is ample evidence that the Domesday was consulted, particiularly in questions of tallageability […] 1953 June 14, Robert Shibley Moth, The Royal Tallage of Three Escheated Honors, With Introductory Notes Concerning the Farm of Those Honors, State University of Iowa:
   • […] and, to a lesser extent, the maintenance against a few southern barons with special prerogatives of the tallageability of the Jews to the crown's profit, assured that there would be a good return in the south on the periodic exactions on the Jews. 1989 June 29, William Chester Jordan, “Prelude to the Great Expulsion”, in The French Monarchy and the Jews: From Philip Augustus to the Last Capetians, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, →JSTOR, page 188:

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