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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LEV'Y, v.t. [L. levo; Eng. to lift.]
1. To raise; to collect. To levy troops, is to enlist or to order men into public service. To levy an army, is to collect troops and form an army by enrollment, conscription or other means.
2. To raise; to collect by assessment; as, to levy taxes, toll tribute, or contributions.
To levy war, is to raise or begin war; to take arms for attack; to attack.
To levy a fine, to commence and carry on a suit for assuring the title to lands or tenements.
LEV'Y, n.
1. The act of collecting men for military, or other public service, as by enlistment, enrollment or other means. 1 Kings 9.
2. Troops collected; an army raised. 1 Kings 5.
3. The act of collecting money for public use by tax or other imposition.
4. War raised. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a charge imposed and collected
2: the act of drafting into military service [syn: levy, levy en masse] v
1: impose and collect; "levy a fine" [syn: levy, impose]
2: cause to assemble or enlist in the military; "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers" [syn: recruit, levy, raise]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun (plural levies) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French levé, literally, raising, from lever to raise — more at lever Date: 13th century 1. a. the imposition or collection of an assessment b. an amount levied 2. a. the enlistment or conscription of men for military service b. troops raised by levy II. verb (levied; levying) Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to impose or collect by legal authority <levy a tax> b. to require by authority 2. to enlist or conscript for military service 3. to carry on (war) ; wage intransitive verb to seize property • levier noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.tr. (-ies, -ied) 1 a impose (a rate or toll). b raise (contributions or taxes). c (also absol.) raise (a sum of money) by legal execution or process (the debt was levied on the debtor's goods). d seize (goods) in this way. e extort (levy blackmail). 2 enlist or enrol (troops etc.). 3 (usu. foll. by upon, against) wage, proceed to make (war). --n. (pl. -ies) 1 a the collecting of a contribution, tax, etc., or of property to satisfy a legal judgement. b a contribution, tax, etc., levied. 2 a the act or an instance of enrolling troops etc. b (in pl.) men enrolled. c a body of men enrolled. d the number of men enrolled. Derivatives: leviable adj. Etymology: ME f. OF levee fem. past part. of lever f. L levare raise f. levis light

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Levy Lev"y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Levied (l[e^]v"[i^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Levying.] 1. To raise, as a siege. [Obs.] --Holland. 2. 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. --Fuller. 3. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions. If they do this . . . my ransom, then, Will soon be levied. --Shak. 4. (Law) (a) To gather or exact; as, to levy money. (b) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc. [Obs.] --Cowell. --Blackstone. (c) To take or seize on execution; to collect by execution. To levy a fine, to commence and carry on a suit for assuring the title to lands or tenements. --Blackstone. To levy war, to make or begin war; to take arms for attack; to attack.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Levy Lev"y (-[y^]), n.; pl. Levies (-[i^]z). [A contr. of elevenpence or elevenpenny bit.] A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 121/2 cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Levy Lev"y, n. [F. lev['e]e, fr. lever to raise. See Lever, and cf. Levee.] 1. The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc. A levy of all the men left under sixty. --Thirlwall. 2. That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc. `` The Irish levies.'' --Macaulay. 3. (Law) The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution. Levy in mass [F. lev['e]e en masse], a requisition of all able-bodied men for military service.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Levy Lev"y, v. i. To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods. To levy on goods and chattels, to take into custody or seize specific property in satisfaction of a writ.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(levies, levying, levied) 1. A levy is a sum of money that you have to pay, for example as a tax to the government. ...an annual motorway levy on all drivers. N-COUNT 2. If a government or organization levies a tax or other sum of money, it demands it from people or organizations. They levied religious taxes on Christian commercial transactions... Taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament. VERB: V n on n, V n

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(1 Kings 4:6, R.V.; 5:13), forced service. The service of tributaries was often thus exacted by kings. Solomon raised a "great levy" of 30,000 men, about two per cent. of the population, to work for him by courses on Lebanon. Adoram (12:18) presided over this forced labour service (Ger. Frohndienst; Fr. corvee).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

lev'-i.

See WAR.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Raise, muster, call together. 2. Collect, gather.

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