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Definition:To rate; to tax; to assess.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---1. (Britain, Ireland) An assessed tax.2. (Britain, Ireland, informal) Luck.3. (obsolete) Bound; measure.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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Successively, in descending helotic order: Poverty: that of the outdoor hawker of imitation jewellery, the dun for the recovery of bad and doubtful debts, the poor rate and deputy cess collector.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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Och! bad cess the them!
Frances Burnett. Little Lord Fauntleroy
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FACE. Ay, that was with the grief
Thou took'st for being cess'd at eighteen-pence,
For the water-work.
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That spirit upon whose weal depends and rests
The lives of many. The cess of majesty
Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw
What’s near it with it.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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