levying

Verb

levy (third-person singular simple present levies, present participle levying, simple past and past participle levied)

1. (transitive) To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
   • to levy a tax
2. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
   • If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied.1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
3. To draft someone into military service.
4. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
   • Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
5. To wage war.
6. To raise, as a siege.
   • Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “(please specify the book number)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC

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