Middle English Dictionary Entry
levāble adj.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | levāble adj.(1) |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To be levied or collected, leviable; also, recoverable.
Associated quotations
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.146 : Arrerages nought leuable be þe tyme of þe Forseide Robert Smyth.
- (1432) RParl.4.403b : If any oder amercement..be apon any Decenne..set or putt, that hit be for noght, voide, and noght levable.
- (1437) RParl.4.503b : Of every Merchaunt Deniszine..xxxiii s. iiii d., levable and paiable, in maner and forme as ye Subsidee of Wolle and Wollefell is at this day.
- (1442) Proc.Privy C.5.322 : Grete sommes ben due and levable to þe Kynges use and profite.
- (c1447) Let.Midylton in Lin.NQ 16198 : Yt ys yn myn remembrauns that yt pas ijc mark the levabyll dettes off tenauntes.
- (1449) RParl.5.144b : The Collectours of this same Subsidie..have at every tyme by thair othes, due discharges, and allowaunce in shuch as is nough levable therof.
- (1449) RParl.5.145b : No such annuite ner sommes of money..in eny wise be levable of the same Subsidies.
- (1461) RParl.5.495b : Such somme or sommes of money, as may be yerely levable of the fermes of the same Shire.
- (1464) RParl.5.509a : All Grauntes..made by You..of eny somme..for youre owne Dette..be as good, effectuell and levable of thies Subsidies, to youre Highnes by us nowe graunted.
- (1474) RParl.6.118a : That the Graunte..and the Levie..be utterly voide, and not levable uppon us.
- -?-(1450) Pet.Hen.VI in Archaeol.191 : When the..taxe is graunted..it draweth to the somme of li l. x s. iv d..the whiche, whenne it is levable, sum oon man in the said citee is sette unto iiii marc.