levy

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈlɛ.vi/    /ˈlɛ.vi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of levying.
  2. The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence. Pennsylvania,US,Virginia,obsolete
  3. The act of levying.; A conscription action.
    — 1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece A levy of all the men left under sixty.
  4. The things or people so levied.; A tax.; A tax paid in money.
    — The Irish levies.
  5. The things or people so levied.; A tax.; A tax in kind.
  6. The things or people so levied.; Requisitioned supplies.
  7. The things or people so levied.; A body of conscripts.
    — To make up for their losses at the battle they [the professional army of Harold II, Anglo-Saxon King of England] had gathered levies of men from the counties they passed through on their way south. […] Ranged alongside these professionals were the levies: farmers and peasants, for the most part, who had been straggling in from all over the southern counties during the previous few days [before the Battle of Hastings in 1066].
  8. A shilling. obsolete,slang
动词 v.
  1. To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property. transitive
    — to levy a tax
  2. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
    — If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied.
  3. To draft someone into military service.
  4. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
    — Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
  5. To wage war.
  6. To raise, as a siege.
    — Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied
  7. To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
    — The new levying or inhancing of Weares Mills

词形变化

levies present,singular,third-person levying participle,present levied participle,past levied past levies plural levies plural

词源

词源 1
From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from
lever (“to raise”), from Latin lēvāre (“to raise, lift”).
词源 2
Contraction of elevenpence.
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