Untaxed

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8. Cf. G. untaxirt, older Da. utaxeret in sense 2.]

  † 1.  Unassailed; unchallenged. Obs.

c. 1460.  Oseney Reg., 17. Ordeynyng þat all maner possessions … sure to yow … vntaxid abyde.

1605.  Bacon, Adv. Learn., I. vii. § 7. In common speech (which leaves no virtue untaxed) he was called … a divider of cummin seed.

1645.  G. Daniel, Poems, Wks. (Grosart), II. 101. May not I,… To my best Child, Vtter a Truth vntax’d?

a. 1691.  Boyle, Hist. Air (1692), 76. A mistake that must not pass untaxed amongst learned men.

  2.  Not required to pay taxes.

1464–5.  in Acta Parlt. Scotl. (1875), XII. 31/2. Any personis within þe boundis of thare office vntaxt.

1746.  Warton, Progr. Discontent, 119. I … din’d untax’d, untroubled, under The portrait of our pious founder.

1776.  Adam Smith, W. N., V. ii. (1904), II. 513. Those who exercise the untaxed employments.

1826.  Lamb, Wks. (1908), I. 389. The Beadle … looks like a whole parish, full, important—but untaxed.

1835.  Lytton, Rienzi, IX. iv. To live unbutchered by the Barons, and untaxed by their governors.