Past tense of cess; subjected to a cess or tax; assessed or levied upon.
From cess plus the regular past tense suffix -ed, marking the completion of the action of assessing or collecting a cess.
In Irish history, when the English tried to 'cess' the Irish population for taxes, it became such a despised practice that the phrase 'the right to cess' became a symbol of colonial oppression!
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