English Dictionary

cess

/sɛs/

noun

(Britain, Ireland) An assessed tax, duty, or levy. / (Britain, Ireland, informal) Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success. / (obsolete) Bound; measure.

The cess is a tax levied on certain goods and services in Britain.

意味（1）

(Britain, Ireland) An assessed tax, duty, or levy.

Cess is none other than that which you yourself called imposition …

意味（2）

(Britain, Ireland, informal) Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success.

Bad cess may attend you, where are you scampering to, you rambunctious—but she could go no farther; the tears burst from her, and she gave way, without farther resistance, to an explosion of grief.

意味（3）

(obsolete) Bound; measure.

The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess.