Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tasked"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Task \Task\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tasked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Tasking}.]
1. To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of
business, labor, or duty to.

There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.
--Dryden.

2. To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.

3. To charge; to tax; as with a fault.

Too impudent to task me with those errors. --Beau. &
Fl.

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