Crossword-Solution: CAPITATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Capitation | n. | A numbering of heads or individuals. |
| Capitation | n. | A tax upon each head or person, without reference to property; a poll tax. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “CAPITATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fee | 54 answers |
| Tax | 60 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CAPITATION (5)
Eleven foreign traders pay him a patent of a hundred dollars, some two thousand subjects pay capitation at the rate of a dollar for a man, half a dollar for a woman, and a shilling for a child: allowing for the exchange, perhaps a total of three hundred pounds a year.
According to his religion and situation, each writer chooses either Diocletian, or Constantine, or Valens, or Theodosius, for the object of his invectives; but they unanimously agree in representing the burden of the public impositions, and particularly the land tax and capitation, as the intolerable and increasing grievance of their own times.
The jugerum contained 28,800 square Roman feet.] Either from design or from accident, the mode of assessment seemed to unite the substance of a land tax with the forms of a capitation.
Such indeed might be the theory of the Roman capitation; but in the practice, this unjust equality was no longer felt, as the tribute was collected on the principle of a _real_, not of a _personal_ imposition.
The difficulty of allowing an annual sum of about nine pounds sterling, even for the average of the capitation of Gaul, may be rendered more evident by the comparison of the present state of the same country, as it is now governed by the absolute monarch of an industrious, wealthy, and affectionate people.