Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. --Shak.
Perpetual feast of nectared sweets. --Milton.
{Circle of perpetual apparition}, or {occultation}. See under
{Circle}.
{Perpetual calendar}, a calendar so devised that it may be
adjusted for any month or year.
{Perpetual curacy} (Ch. of Eng.), a curacy in which all the
tithes are appropriated, and no vicarage is endowed.
--Blackstone.
{Perpetual motion}. See under {Motion}.
{Perpetual screw}. See {Endless screw}, under {Screw}.
Syn: Continual; unceasing; endless; everlasting; incessant;
constant; eternal. See {Constant}.
A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors,
proverbially the most rapacious. --Macaulay.
(b) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon
polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a
window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.
Note: Taxes are {annual} or {perpetual}, {direct} or
{indirect}, etc.
(c) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society
to defray its expenses.
2. A task exacted from one who is under control; a
contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed
upon a subject.
3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy
tax on time or health.
4. Charge; censure. [Obs.] --Clarendon.
5. A lesson to be learned; a task. [Obs.] --Johnson.
{Tax cart}, a spring cart subject to a low tax. [Eng.]
Syn: Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate;
assessment; exaction; custom; demand.