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Cessed vs Fessed - What's the difference?

cessed | fessed |

As verbs the difference between cessed and fessed

is that cessed is (cess) while fessed is (fess).

cessed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cess)

    • cess

    English

    (wikipedia cess)

    Alternative forms

    * Cess

    Etymology 1

    Shortened form of assess, spelled by analogy with census and other Latinate words.

    Noun

    (es)
  • (British, Ireland) An assessed tax.
  • * '>citation
  • (British, Ireland, informal) Luck
  • (obsolete) Bound; measure.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess .

    Verb

  • (British, Ireland) To levy a .
  • * '>citation
    • Derived terms
    * bad cess
    See also
    * cease * cessation

    Etymology 2

    Possibly from an archaic dialect word meaning "bog".

    Noun

    (es)
  • (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.
    • Derived terms
    * cess path * cess heave

    See also

    * cesspool * cesspit

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) cesser. See cease.

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To cease; to neglect.
    • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913)

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    fessed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fess)

    • fess

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (confess), by shortening

    Verb

    (es)
  • To confess; to admit.
    • Derived terms
    * fess up English clippings

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Alternative forms

    * fesse

    Noun

    (es)
  • (heraldiccharge) A horizontal band across the middle of the shield.
  • * 1892 , Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor’, Norton 2005 p.294:
    • Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral—Hum! Arms: Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable.
  • * 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 420:
    • The space where the arms of Wolsey used to be is being repainted with his own newly granted arms: azure, on a fess between three lions rampant or, a rose gules, barbed vert, between two Cornish choughs proper .