vbl. sb. [f. LEVY v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. LEVY in its various senses.

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1496–7.  Act 12 Hen. VII., c. 12 § 5. Then the levyeng and payment of the seid xvme … [shall be] put in suspence.

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1548[?].  Edw. VI., Jrnl., in Lit. Rem. (Roxb.), II. 223. [Thei] levied their siege, in the month of September; in the levieng of wich ther cam [etc.].

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1587.  Q. Eliz., in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.), I. 225. That ye do assist the said Captains in the levying of their bands.

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1712.  Prideaux, Direct. Ch.-wardens (ed. 4), 51. The levying and disposing of them [the Rates].

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1769.  Blackstone, Comm., IV. 82. To resist the king’s forces by defending a castle against them, is a levying of war.

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1815.  Elphinstone, Acc. Caubul (1842), I. 229. The levying fixed proportions of troops or money, or both, from each tribe.

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1818.  Cruise, Digest (ed. 2), IV. 160. The levying or suffering any such fines or recoveries.

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1828–40.  Tytler, Hist. Scot. (1864), I. 222. Opponents to the regular levying of the tithes.

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  † b.  gerundially with omission of prep.

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1642.  Roy. Comm., in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.), I. 527. There are now at or near … London great forces levying and moneys raising.

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