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/sɛs/
Noun
An assessed tax, duty, or levy; billeting.
Usage- India
- Ireland
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EUDOX[US] But what is that which you call Cess? it is a Word sure unused amongst us here; therefore (I pray you) expound the same. IREN[EUS] Cess is none other than that which you yourself called Imposition, but is in a kind unacquainted perhaps unto you; for there are Cesses of sundry sorts: one is the Cessing of Soldiers upon the Countrey; [...] Another kind of Cess is, the imposing of Provisions for the Governours Housekeeping, [...]
‘For what cess or tallage comes these bandogs to Fitz Peascod Castle?’
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The act provides for a levy of a cess on all coal and coke despatched from collieries in India, at such rate, not less than twenty-five paise and not more than fifty paise per ton, as may be fixed by the Central Government.
Therefore it was proposed to levy a cess on local authorities which are entrusted with the duty of supplying water under the law by or under which they are constituted and on certain specified industries.
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) overhaul will make cars cheaper this festive season across segments. Entry-level and mid-segment cars priced up to ₹14 lakh will see up to a 13% reduction in GST and cess, making them more attractive to a price-sensitive customer base. High-end cars with engines above 1200 cc are set to become 5–10% cheaper. Small cars that run on petrol, LPG and CNG with engines below 1200 cc, and diesel cars of up to 1500 cc and with a length under 4 metres will attract a GST of 18% instead of 28%. The cess of 1% and 3% will no longer be applicable.
Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success.
Usage- Ireland
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"Bad cess may attend you, where are you scampering to, you rambunctious"—but she could go no farther; the tears burst from her, and she gave way, without farther resistance, to an explosion of grief.
Midland has had good cess with using minute commercials eight television stations, cited as one example of modernizing its advertising.
It is good cess to feel the warmth and sincerity of this couple who fill the role of the Queen's representative in Canada.
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Bad cess to it, b'ys! Where's the blessed ting, at all, at all? Bad cess to it!
Bound; measure.
Usage- Obsolete
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The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess.
Verb
To levy a cess.
Usage- Ireland
- UK usage
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...according to the quantity thereof, we may cess the said rent and allowance issuing thereout.
Noun
The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
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In April 1923, he was working with a gang of five others in Glasgow on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS). They were told to walk in the cess. But as it wasn't clear, they walked on the sleepers, each carrying a 70lb lifting screw on his shoulder. McGuinness was struck by a train and killed for want of a safe path.
A bog, in particular a peat bog.
Usage- dialectal
- Obsolete
A piece of peat, or a turf, particularly when dried for use as fuel.
Usage- dialectal
- Obsolete
Verb
To cease; to neglect.
Usage- Obsolete
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And therefore, if there be lord, mesne, and tenant, and the tenant doth cess, and the mesne takes a wife and dies, his wife shall not have dower of the tenancy...