Now only Rom. Hist. Also 6 vecti-, Sc. victigall. [a. L. vectīgal a payment to the State, etc.] A payment of the nature of tribute, tax or rent, made to a superior or to the State.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 243. Grit tribute and victigall alsua, Ilk ȝeir by ȝeir to king Arthure till pa.
1538. Leland, Itin. (1769), IV. 111. Thereupon they give a Fee Farme or Vectigall of an 100. l. yearely. The Vectigall is as it was.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Vectigal,… used substantively for toll, impost-money or tribute it self.
1774. T. West, Antiq. Furness (1805), 104. His lands and tenants were exempted from all regal exactions of talliage, toll, passage, pontage, and vectigal.
1838. Arnold, Hist. Rome (1846), I. xvii. 366. The tribunes demanded … that the occupiers of the remainder should pay their vectigal regularly.
