Levy vs Leavy - What's the difference?
levy | leavy |
To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property
To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
* Shakespeare
To draft someone into military service
To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrolment, conscription. etc.
* Fuller
To wage war
To raise, as a siege.
(legal) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
The act of levying.
* Thirlwall
The tax, property or people so levied.
* Macaulay
(US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
An older form of leafy (consisting of leaves ).
* Shakespeare
As a verb levy
is to impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.As a noun levy
is the act of levying.As an adjective leavy is
an older form of leafy (consisting of leaves).levy
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) leve'', from (etyl) ''levee'', from ''lever "to raise".Verb
(en-verb)- to levy a tax
- If they do this my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied .
- Augustine inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
- (Holland)
- to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.
- (Cowell)
Noun
(levies)- A levy of all the men left under sixty.
- The Irish levies .
Etymology 2
Contraction of elevenpence.Noun
(levies)See also
* levee * Levi ----leavy
English
Adjective
(er)- Your leavy screens throw down.