Etymology

fortax

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Today it means: To tax heavily; burden. Full definition →

Middle English fortaxen
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromfortaxen
  2. English todayfortax

From Middle English fortaxen. By surface analysis, for- + tax.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.