ppl. a. [f. ASSESS v. + -ED.]
1. Fixed or apportioned by assessment. Assessed taxes: those on inhabited houses, male servants, carriages, horses, mules, dogs, horse-dealers, hair-powder, armorial bearings, and game.
1796. Pitt, in Ld. Auckland’s Corr. (1862), III. 364. Additional payment on the assessed taxes.
1842. Penny Cycl., XXIV. 111/2. The assessed annual value.
1852. McCulloch, Taxation, II. vi. 272. The duties on armorial bearings, carriages, horses, and horse-dealers, dogs, game certificates, servants, and windows, are called, for what reason it is not easy to imagine, the ‘assessed taxes.’
2. Subject to taxation, taxed, fined.
1552. Huloet, Assessed person, or he that is assessed or taxed, Census.
