We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride,
and folly than we are taxed by government.
--Franklin.
2. (Law) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount
of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.
3. To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed
by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to
tax a man with pride.
I tax you, you elements, with unkindness. --Shak.
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have
taxed their crimes. --Dryden.
Fear not now that men should tax thine honor. --M.
Arnold.