betaxed

English

Adjective

betaxed (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Subject to the payment of tax.
   • 1834, The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, page 95:

     We wear shoes of leather, costly in the skin, expensive in its conversion into leather, and betaxed to a disgusting extent, and yet we have not the manliness to abandon these wasteful and extravagant trappings, and to devise cheap and durable substitutes.