[f. prec. sb. So F. tarifer.]
† 1. intr. To have to do with a tariff. nonce-use.
1756. Mrs. Calderwood, Jrnl. (1884), 292. A tariff of fixed duties [was] to have been settled at the treaty of Utrecht, but … was referred to commissaries; of this number was Blair’s uncle, John Drummond, who tariffed all his days…. Andrew Mitchell … who tariffed at Bruxells for some years.
2. trans. To subject to a tariff-duty; to fix the price of (something) according to a tariff; in quot. a. 1868, to rate (a person) according to a tariff.
1828. Webster, Tarif, v.t., to make a list of duties on goods.
1864. Trevelyan, Compet. Wallah (1866), 169. If the Sidonians … had paid five per cent. on Madapollams tariffed at ninepence.
a. 1868. M. J. Higgins, Ess. (1875), 158. A slow sulky conductor he silently endures, and tariffs him accurately on reaching the end of the stage.
1870. Daily News, 6 Oct. If the siege lasts long enough, dogs, rats, and cats will be tariffed.
1887. Westm. Rev., June, 362. In 1583 the best Gascony wine was tariffed in London … at £13 the tun.
1904. Mrs. Dauncey, Englishw. Philippines, vi. (1906), 49. For these schools and … schoolmasters this pastoral country [the Philippines] is taxed and tariffed to breaking point.
3. To make into a pro-tariff party. nonce-use.
1909. Westm. Gaz., 2 March, 2/2. The way in which the Tory Party has been tariffed.
Hence Tariffed ppl. a., priced by or subjected to a tariff.
1874. Symonds, Sk. Italy & Greece (1898), I. xiv. 299. The pay is reduced to its tariffed medium.
1903. Westm. Gaz., 17 Aug., 2/1. The ingenious device of buying highly tariffed foreign coffee and sending it to Cape Colony, whence it was reshipped as preferred East Indian coffee.
