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To tax or to task too heavily.

e after another, without indicating their connection or interdependence; -- opposed to syntax. Brande & C.

uch influence. If the migration is toward the source of light, it is termed positive phototaxis; if away from the light, negative phototaxis. --Pho`to*tac"tic (#), a. --Pho`to*tac"tic*al*ly, adv.

The order or arrangement of leaves on the stem; the science of the relative position of leaves.

Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.

Occurring before the symptom ataxia has developed; -- applied to the early symptoms of locomotor ataxia.

The arrangement of the roots of plants.

A tax levied upon land alone, irrespective of improvements, -- advocated by certain economists as the sole source of public revenue.

A tax in addition to the usual or normal tax; specif., in the United Kingdom, an income tax of sixpence for every pound in addition to the normal income tax of one shilling and twopence for every pound, imposed, by the Finance Act of 1909-1910 (c. 8, ss 66, 72), on the amount by which the income of any person exceeds…

An additional or extra tax.

ism. [Obs.] They owe no other dependence to the first than what is common to the whole syntax of beings. Glanvill.

Syntax. [R.] B. Jonson.

ng to, or connected with, the regulation of temperature in the animal body; as, the thermotaxic nervous system.

The property possessed by protoplasm of moving under the influence of heat.

The property possessed by living protoplasm of contracting, and thus moving, when touched by a solid or fluid substance.

Taxed too little, or at a lower rate than others.

re liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets. To abate a tax, to remit it either wholly or in part.

ition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.

To use ill; to maltreat; to act injuriously to; to punish or to tax excessively; to hurt; as, to abuse prisoners, to abuse one's powers, one's patience.

; to say further. He added that he would willingly consent to the entire abolition of the tax. Macaulay.