taxer (takser)

[Also taxor; He [Casaubon] says that Horace, being the son of a taz gatherer or collector,. smells everywhere of the meanne of his birth and education. Dryden, E ay on Satire. taxiarch (tak'si-ärk), n . [ τάξις , a division of an army, order (see taxis), + ἄρχειν , rule.] An ancient Greek military officer commanding a company or battalion, or more usually a larger division of an army, as a cohort or a brigade. In the Greek Church, St. Michael is commonly called "the Taxiarch" as the captain of the celestial armies. taxicorn (tak'si-kôrn), a . and n. [NL. * taxi corn is, τάξις , arrangement, + L. cornu, horn.) I. a. In entom ., per foliated, as an antenna; having per foliated antennæ; belonging to the Tax i corni a . II. n. A taxicorn beetle.