贡物
1.Tribute formerly paid to freebooters along the Scottish border for protection from pillage.
4.A tribute or service rendered to a feudal lord on the death of a tenant.
5.And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
6.Under the rime in question, though the bulk of the population are ill provided for,the government, by collecting small contributions from great numbers, is enabled, with any tolerable management, to make a show of riches quite out of proportion to the general condition of the society;
7.In some cases, the conquering state contented itself with imposing a tribute on the vanquished:who being, in consideration of that burden, freed from the expense and trouble of their own military and naval protection,might enjoy under it a considerable share of economical prosperity, while the ascendant community obtained a surplus of wealth, available for purposes of collective luxury or magnificence.
