[f. TAX v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb TAX in various senses.
1413. Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483), IV. xxxiv. 83. To these shyrreues belongeth to punysshe mysdoers by taxyng of money.
1526. Tindale, Luke ii. 2. This taxynge [Wyclif, discryuyng, Rheims enrolling, R.V. enrolment] was fyrst executed when Syrenus was leftenaunt in Siria.
1535. Coverdale, 1 Esdras ii. 19. They shal not only refuse to geue trybutes and taxinges, but also rebell vtterly agaynst the kynge.
1676. Dryden, Aurengzebe, II. i. Impose; but use your power of Taxing well.
1737. Whiston, Josephus, Antiq., XVIII. ii. (1812), III. 60. The taxings were come to a conclusion.
1841. Myers, Cath. Th., iii. § 35. 123. This is an undue taxing of any man’s faith.
a. 1859. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xxiii. (1861), V. 56. The only power which … Washington and Franklin denied to the Imperial legislature was the power of taxing.
1871. Mrs. A. E. Porter, Married for Both Worlds, i. 22. The white circle about his lips, and the dimmed lustre of his eyes, warned his wife that he was taxing his strength too much.
1907. E. R. Huxley, Our Neighbors’ Hens, 17, in Misc. Poems, 134.
| Likewise repeated o’er an o’er, | |
| Taxing my patience more and more. |
b. attrib. and Comb. Taxing district (U. S.): see quot.; taxing-master, an officer in a court of law who examines and allows or disallows items in a solicitor’s bill of costs when disputed.
1890. Cent. Dict., s.v. District, *Taxing district, in the United States, the territory or region into which (for the purpose of assessment merely) a State, county, town, or other political district is divided. H. H. Emmons.
1848. Wharton, Law Lex., *Taxing masters, officers of the courts, who examine and allow costs.
1882. H. C. Merivale, Fancit of B., II. I. xvii. 22. That exquisite and rational product of British law, the taxing-master.
