taxator
English
Etymology
From Middle English taxatour, from Medieval Latin taxātor.[1][2]
Noun
taxator (plural taxators)
- Synonym of taxer.
- 1831 June, “Art[icle] VI.—1. Addenda ad Corpus Statutorum Universitatis Oxoniensis. 4to. Oxonii: 1825. 2. The Oxford University Calendar, for 1829. 8vo. Oxford: 1829.”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume LIII, number CVI, Edinburgh: […] Ballantyne and Company, for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London; and Adam Black, Edinburgh, page 408:
- The halls were in general held only on lease; but by a privilege common to most Universities, houses once occupied by clerks or students could not again be resumed by the proprietor, or taken from the gown, if the rent were punctually discharged, the rate of which was quinquennially fixed by the academical taxators.
- 1844, Thomas Erskine May, A Treatise upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament, London: Charles Knight & Co. […], page 460:
- The taxators appointed by the clerk of the Parliaments have power to administer oaths, and to require the production of proper vouchers for all monies charged as having been paid by a parliamentary agent.
- 1945, E. Taschdjian, Agricultural Economy and Farm Management with Reference to China, Catholic University of Peking and Chinese Catholic Agricultural Research Assocation, page 57:
- Farm assaying, i.e. the estimation of the value of farms and of their component parts is the task of specialized assayors or taxators and therefore we shall limit ourselves in this pamphlet to a short statement of their work.
References
- “taxator”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Taxator”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes IX, Part 2 (Su–Th), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 121, column 2.
Latin
References
- “taxator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- taxator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- taxator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
Declension
Declension of taxator
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