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noun

Tribute n.

An annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing, paid by one ruler or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue of some treaty; as, the Romans made their conquered countries pay tribute. "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."

A personal contribution, as of money, praise, service, etc., made in token of services rendered, or as that which is due or deserved; as, a tribute of affection. "Implores the passing tribute of a sigh."

(Mining) A certain proportion of the ore raised, or of its value, given to the miner as his recompense.

Tribute money, money paid as a tribute or tax.

Tribute pitch. (Mining) See under Tributer. (Eng.)

Synonyms: See Subsidy.

verb

Tribute v. i. (past & past part. tributed; pres. part. tributing) To pay as tribute. (R.)

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"Tribute" Quotes from Famous Books

... so necessary to domestic and industrial life, and there are but few coalfields where they do not fix the price at which so essential an article shall be sold, and the whole nation is thus forced to pay undue tribute. ...

— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 • Various

... build a fleet of gunboats, which would ascend the river to St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Pittsburg, and compel the people of those cities to pay tribute, for the privilege of navigating the ...

— My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field • Charles Carleton Coffin

... Paul'—which meant the Pope; and to hold it, ever afterwards, by the Pope's leave, on payment of an annual sum of money. To this shameful contract he publicly bound himself in the church of the Knights Templars at Dover: where he laid at the legate's feet a part of the tribute, which the legate haughtily trampled upon. But they do say, that this was merely a genteel flourish, and that he was afterwards seen to pick it up and ...

— A Child's History of England • Charles Dickens

... knew only that she had been robbed of a noble, spiritual possession—that they had murdered the friend who had consecrated himself to her with such true and devoted love, and, weeping over his body, she dedicated to him the tribute of a tear of the purest gratitude, of ...

— The Daughter of an Empress • Louise Muhlbach

... imagination made them take walks over these unknown countries. They climbed the elevated peaks. They descended to the bottom of the large amphitheatres. Here and there they thought they saw vast seas scarcely kept together under an atmosphere so rarefied, and streams of water that poured them their tribute from the mountains. Leaning over the abyss they hoped to catch the noise of this orb for ever mute in the solitudes ...

— The Moon-Voyage • Jules Verne

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