ppl. a. [f. TAX v. + -ED1.]
1. † a. Assessed, determined by authority. Obs.
b. Subjected to a tax.
1483. Cath. Angl., 378/2 Taxed, taxatus.
1552. Huloet, Taxed, census. Ibid. Tuxed by the pole,… capite census.
1689. Burnet, Tracts, I. 5. To buy of it at a taxed price.
1773. Taxed duty [see 2 c].
1776. Adam Smith, W. N., V. ii. (1828), III. 446. The rise in the price of the taxed commodities.
1842. W. C. Taylor, Anc. Hist., xvii. § 8 (ed. 3), 544. His payment of the tax, by buying the taxed article, seems to be voluntary.
2. In special collocations. a. Taxed cart, a two-wheeled (orig. springless) open cart drawn by one horse, and used mainly for agricultural or trade purposes, on which was charged only a reduced duty (afterwards taken off entirely).
1795. Act 35 Geo. III., c. 109 § 2. For and upon every Carriage with less than four Wheels,… which shall have the Words ‘A taxed Cart,’ and also the Owner’s Name and Place of Abode, there shall be charged and paid the yearly Sum of ten Shillings.
1801. W. Felton, Carriages, Suppl. vi. 115. Taxed Carts.
1837. Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc. (1842), IV. 279. The remission of taxation upon what by an odd perversion is called a taxed cart.
1859. Geo. Eliot, A. Bede, xxxviii. The inn-keeper … offered to take him back to Oakbourne in his own ‘taxed cart.’
b. Taxed costs: see quot.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Taxed-costs, the allowed charges of a solicitor, which have been legally examined and assessed before a taxing-master.
c. Taxed ward, formerly, in Scottish land tenure, a wardship in which a fixed annual sum was paid to the superior in lieu of the whole profits.
1603. Reg. Privy Council Scot., Ser. I. VI. 545. To grant the warde landis in taxt warde.
1710. Fountainhall, in M. P. Brown, Suppl. Decis. (1826), IV. 788. Part of the lands holding black or simple-ward, and part taxed-ward.
1773. Erskine, Instit., II. v. § 5. If the ward was taxed, the minor retained the possession, and the superior had nothing to demand but the yearly taxed duty.
