betaxed
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]betaxed (not comparable)
- (archaic) Subject to the payment of tax.
- 1834, The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, page 95:
- We wear shoes of leather, costly in the skin, expensive in its conversion into leather, and betaxed to a disgusting extent, and yet we have not the manliness to abandon these wasteful and extravagant trappings, and to devise cheap and durable substitutes.