Cess vs Cest - What's the difference?
cess | cest |
(British, Ireland) An assessed tax.
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(British, Ireland, informal) Luck
(obsolete) Bound; measure.
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(British, Ireland) To levy a .
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(rail transport) 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.
In obsolete terms the difference between cess and cest
is that cess is to cease; to neglect while cest is a woman's girdle; a cestus.As nouns the difference between cess and cest
is that cess is an assessed tax while cest is a woman's girdle; a cestus.As a verb cess
is to levy a cess.As an initialism CEST is
central European Summer Time.cess
English
(wikipedia cess)Alternative forms
* CessEtymology 1
Shortened form of assess, spelled by analogy with census and other Latinate words.Noun
(es)- The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess .