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Webster 1913 Edition
Cess
1.
A rate or tax.
[Obs. or Prof. Eng. & Scot.]
Spenser.
2.
Bound; measure.
[Obs.]
The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all
cess
. Shakespeare
Cess
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Cessed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Cessing
.] To rate; to tax; to assess.
Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cess
CESS
, as a noun, a rate or tax, and as a verb, to rate or lay a tax, is probably a corruption of assess, or from the same root.CESS
,Verb.
I.