Revied vs Levied - What's the difference?
revied | levied |
(revie)
(obsolete) To vie with, or rival, in return.
(obsolete) To exceed an adversary's wager in a card game.
(obsolete) To make a retort; to bandy words.
(Webster 1913) (levy)
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.
As verbs the difference between revied and levied
is that revied is past tense of revie while levied is past tense of levy.revied
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Verb
(head)revie
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Verb
- (Ben Jonson)
levied
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*levy
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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 .