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sess cess

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sess

▶noun variant spelling of cess1.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cess1 /sɛs/ (also sess)

▶noun (in Scotland, Ireland, and India) a tax or levy.

– origin C15: shortened from the obs. noun assess ‘assessment’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cess2 /sɛs/

▶noun (in phr. bad cess to) chiefly Irish a curse on.

– origin C19 (orig. Anglo-Ir.): perh. from cess1.

'sess' also found in these Oxford entries:

cess - sessile - session

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