Meanings
nouncessment (plural cessments)
plural cessments
- obsoleteAn assessment or tax.
charge the Kingdom with a new Cessment of four hundred chousand Duckers
1652, Prudencio de SANDOVAL, The Civil Wars in Spain
Origin
From cess + -ment. See cess (verb).
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