This week's theme: words related to death and taxes. capitation (kap-i-TAY-shuhn) noun
1. A counting of heads. 2. A uniform tax assessed by the head; a poll tax. 3. A fee extracted from each student. [From Late Latin capitation- (poll tax), from caput (head). Ultimately from Indo-European root kaput- (head), also the origin of head, captain, chef, chapter, cadet, cattle, chattel, achieve, biceps, and mischief, (but not of kaput).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=capitation -Anu Garg (gargATwordsmith.org) "Later, [the] Supreme Court appointed a committee under Justice Jahagirdar to ensure that the private medical colleges charge no undue capitation fees." HC Gives Reprieve to Medical Students; Afternoon Despatch & Courier (Mumbai, India); Mar 7, 2006. Sponsored by: Perfect your fluency in French, German, Spanish or Italian with Champs-Elysees audio magazines. http://ads.champs-elysees.com/wsmith4 Ever wonder why we don't just talk, we chew the fat? Derivation, a hilarious game about word and phrase origins. A great gift! http://entspire.com ............................................................................ There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy. -Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826) Looking for word/quotation archives: http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html Unsubscribe, change address, etc: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/capitation.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/capitation.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/capitation.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
