tola 
[Hind. f/, < Skt. 
6369 
ami Mf ration to the conduct. One may show toleration 
from policy, without really having the spirit of tolerance. 
tolerant (t<>l'i;-rant), a. and n. [< OP. tolerant, 
F. tnlrrant = Sp. Pg. tolerantc = It. tollerante, 
< L. tnlcran(t-)K, ppr. of tolerare, endure, toler- 
ate: see tuli rule.'] I. a. 1. Inclined or dis- 
posed to tolerate ; favoring toleration ; forbear- 
ing; enduring. 
The amo 
cacuai 
more tolerant than adults. 
unt required t produce its effect [that of ijiv ,.,. /,,/, ,(,. 1 ( 
varies considerably, children as a rule being p nr :., s n f l']t IV nft 
,., ,^,.int than adulU. Encyc- Brit.. XIII. 210. Ll ' rl r Lltt -' ' V " 1AV - 
II. n. One who tolerates; especially, one ^^ m > " 
who is free from bigotry ; a tolerationist. tolibantt (tol'i-bant), n. 
Henry the Fourth was a hero with Voltaire, for no bet- 
In a tolerant 
tola 1 (to'lii), H. [Hind, tola, < Skt. tiiln, 
ance, < yttll, lift up, weigh: see /i/A-nM. lulu- 
ill,.} The fiindanu-iitiil unit of weight <>f (lie 
empire of Indi;i. In l:iw |ireri>ely i<i|ii:il In 
grains troy. It is'nlioilt half a'gniin ln-;ivii-r 
tliiiu tin- old tula tsirca. 
tola- (to'la), n. [Quichua.] In Peru, a native 
burial-mound. 
The only monuments of this neighborhood that escaped 
tin- fury of tlit- conquerors are thv ttiltin or mounds. 
Hatmurek, Four Years among Spanish Americans, p. 318. 
tola! (to'li), n. [Native name.] The Siberian 
hare, fspiM tolai. 
tolasht, '' ' [ME. tolanxln -n ; < to- 2 + lank 1 .] 
To scourge severely. 
Goo ye and bete hym and all tojatuhe hym. 
Holy flood (E. E. T. S.X p. 168. 
tolbooth, . See tollbootli. 
told (told). Preterit and past participle of tell 1 . 
tole't, ''. Same as tolft, tolfl. 
tole-t, A Middle English form of toon. 
Toledo (lo-le'do), n. [So called from Toledo (< tolerantly (tol'e-rant-li), adv. 
L. Toletum), a city in Spain, long famous for manner; with toleration. 
manufacturing sword-blades of fine temper.] tolerate (tol'e-rat), v. t.; pret. and pp. tolerated, 
A sword-blade made, or supposed to be made, ppr. tolerating. [Formerly also touerate; <_L. 
at Toledo in Spain, or a sword having such a 
blade; a Toledo blade or sword. Toledos were 
supposed to be of remarkably fine temper, and are said to 
have been of extraordinary elasticity. 
You sold me a rapier ; . . . you said It was a toledo. 
B. Jonson, Every Man In his Humour, Hi. I. 
toler, H. See toller'*. 
tolerability (tol'e-ra-bil'i-ti), n. [< tolerable 
+ -ity: see -biliiy.'] Tolerableness. fuller. 
[Rare.] 
tolerable (tol'e-ra-bl), a. [Formerly also tol- 
lerable; < OF. "tolerable, F. tolerable = Pr. tol- 
lerable = Sp. tolerable = Pg. toleracel = It. tol- 
lerabile, < L. tolerabilis, that may be endured, < 
tolerare, endure, tolerate see tolerate.] 1. That 
may be borne or endured; supportable, either 
physically or mentally. 
It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Go- 
morrba In the day of judgment, than for that city. 
Mat. x. 15. 
2. Fit to be tolerated; sufferable. 
That langage that in the chambre is Mlerable in place toleration (tol-e-ra'shon), tt. 
of lugement or great assembly is nothing commendable. 
Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, II. 2. 
3. Moderately good or agreeable ; not contemp- 
tible ; not very excellent or pleasing, but such 
as can be borne or received without positive 
approval or disapproval ; passable ; mediocre. 
The new front towards y gardens is tollerable, were It 
not drown d by a too massle and clomsle pair of stayres 
of stone. Krelyn, Diary, June 9, 1858. 
I only meant her to make a tolerable figure, without sur- 
passing any one. George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, x. 
4. In fair health ; passably well. [Colloq.] 
We're tolerable, sir, I thank you. 
Charlotte Brrmtf, Jane Eyre, xxvi. 
= Syn. 1 and 2. Endurable, bearable. 3. Indifferent, 
ordinary, so-so. 
tolerableness (tol'e-ra-bl-nes), n. The state 
or character of being tolerable. Rev. T.Adams, 
Works, II. 137. 
tolerably (tol'e-ra-bli), adv. In a tolerable 
manner, in any sense. 
tolerance (tol'e-rans), n. [Formerly also M- 
lerance ; < OF. "tolerance, F. tolerance = Pr. tol- 
leransa = Sp. Pg. tolerancia = It. tolleranza, < 
L. tolerantia, endurance, < toleran(t-)s, endur- 
ing, tolerant: see tolerant.] 1. The state or . -, - . 
character of being tolerant. ,) The power or ca- c ' al privileges without any regard to d.fference 
pacltyof enduring; the act of enduring ; eimurance: as, of religion. 
tolerance of heat or cold. 
Diogenes, one terrible frosty morning, came into the 
market-place, and stood naked, quaking, to shew bis toler. 
ante. Bacon, Works, I. 370. 
(6) A disposition to he patient and indulgent toward those 
whose opinions or practices differ from one's own ; free- 
dom from bigotry or severity in judging of the opinions 
or conduct of others. 
The Christian spirit of charity and tolerance. 
Bp. lionley, Sermons, II., App. 
2. The act of tolerating; toleration. 
Remember that the responsibility of tolerance lies with 
those who have the wider vision. 
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, vli. S. 
3. In mcd., the power, either congenital or ac- 
quired, which an individual has of resistance 
to the action of a poison. Also toleration. 4. 
In minting, same as allowance*, 7. See also 
remedy, 4. Also toleration. 
The limit of tolerance of the gold dollar being } of a 
grain (nearly double the limit of abrasion), the gold dollar 
will continue current until reduced in weight below 25.;"i5 
grains. Report Sec. Treaturii, 1-86, 1. 271. 
= Syn. 1 (6). ratholiclty, liberality. 1 (b) and 2. Tol- 
erance, Toleration. Generally tolerance refers to the spirit, 
400 
toll 
the name Riven to the statute 1 Will. and Mary (1689X 
cap. 18. by which l-rotestant dissenters from the Church 
of Knghind, except uch as denied the Trinity, on condi- 
tion .if taking the oaths nf supremacy and allegiance, and 
repudiating the dix-t rim- of tnnsubstantlatlon, anil, JO UM 
cue of illhsentliiK minister*, subscribing also to the Thirty- 
nine Articles, with certain exceptions relating t 
monies, ordination, Infant baptism, etc., were relieved 
from thv roil ric'i ions under which they had formerly lain 
lili r. ward to the exercise of religious worship according 
to tin ir own forms. = Byn. See tolerance. 
The preface is evidently the work of a sensible and can- tolerationist (tol-e-ra'shon-ist), H. [< tolera- 
dld m:ui, nn 111 i his own religious opinions, and (oferon/ ,- + f -, On e " wn o advocates toleration. 
toward, those of other* Macaulay. Milton. fftf xxiy ^ 
2. In mcd., able to receive or endure without tolefator (tol'e-ra-tor). n. [< LL. Merator, one 
effect, or without pernicious effect. wh(l OI ,a U reB,"< L. "toterare, endure, tolerate: 
One who tolerates. /. If Israeli, 
IV. 139. 
An obsolete spelling of tott- 
Same as turban. 
ter reason than that he was the first great tolerant. ' ,..,.i,-,. 
J. Morlty, Voltaire, Hi. (Encyc. Diet.) t?llpanet, '< Hi ime an f MI tol ^ ^ ^ _ 
)Fries. Mnf, tolene, tolen =D. tni = 
tvlen, tollen, tolne, tolle = OHO. 
ppr. wici ufrtrft/* |_i.' ui uici if oiovj m *'> * "> 
toleratitx, pp. of tolerare (> It. tollerare = Pg. 
Sp. tolerar = Pr. tollerar = OF. Merer, F. to- 
lerer), endure, tolerate, < / M, in tollere, bear, 
lift, Mi, perf. of fero, bear; cf. Or. r^fnxu, suf- 
fer, Skt. ^ tul, lift, lift up, weigh, > tuK, bal- 
ance (see talent 1 ).] 1. To sustain or endure; 
specifically, in med., to endure or support, as a 
strain or a drug, without pernicious effect. 2. 
To suffer to be or to be done without prohibi- 
tion or hindrance; allow or permit negatively, 
by not preventing; put up with; endure; re- 
frain from restraining; treat in a spirit of 
patience and forbearance; forbear to judge of 
or condemn with bigotry and severity: as, to 
tolerate opinions or practices. 
The Gospel commands us to tollerate one another, though 
of various opinions. Milton, True Religion. 
They would soon see that criminal means once tolerated 
are soon preferred. Burke, Rev. in France. 
= 8yn. 2. Permit, Content to, etc. (see alloiel); brook, 
put up with, abide, bear, bear with. 
;ol-e-ra'shon), n. [Formerly also 
tolleration; < (3F. toleration, F. toleration = 
OSp. toleracion = It. tollera:ione, < L. tolcra- 
tio(n-), < tolerare, pp. toleratm, endure, tolerate : 
see tolerate.'] It. The act of sustaining or en- 
during; endurance. 
There Is also moderation In tolleration of fortune of 
euery sorte, whiche of Tullie is called equahilltie. 
Sir T. Elyot, The Oovernour, Hi. 14. 
2. The act of tolerating; allowance made for 
what is not wholly approved ; forbearance. 
The indulgence and toleration granted to these men. 
South. 
3. Specifically, the recognition of the right of 
private judgment in matters of faith and wor- 
ship : also, the liberty granted by the govern- 
ing power of a state to every individual to hold 
or publicly teach and defend his religious opin- 
ions, and to worship whom, how, and when he 
pleases, provided that he does not thereby vi- 
olate the rights of others or infringe laws de- 
signed for the protection of decency, morality, 
and good order, or for the security of the gov- 
erning power; the effective recognition by the 
state of the right which every person has to 
enjoy the benefit of all the laws and of all so- 
irivile 
igion. 
To this succeeded the King's declaration for an univer- 
sal toUtraliun. Evelyn, Diary, March I-.', 1672. 
Toleration Is of two kinds : the allowing to dissenters 
the unmolested profession and exercise of their religion, 
but with an exclusion from offices of trust and emolument 
in the state, which is a partial toleration; and the admit- 
ting them without distinction to all the civil privileges 
and capacities of other citizens, which is a complete tol- 
eration. I'aleij, Elements of Political Knowledge, x. 
4. A disposition to tolerate, or not to judge or 
5. In mcd. and phygiol., same as toleranee, 3. 
Military surgery supplies many illustrations of tolera- 
tion of shock and mildness of collapse after severe Inju- 
ries to the medullary substance of the hemispheres. 
J. M. Carnochan, Operative Surgery, p. 328. 
6. Same as tolerance, 4. 
In Germany and in the United States all silver coins, 
in France and Austria the major silver coins, are of the 
fineness 900, with a toleration of 3 units. 
Encyc. Brit., XXIL 71. 
7. A license to gather oysters or operate oys- 
ter-beds. The fee is a toleration fee. [Brookna- 
ven, Long Island.] Act of Toleration, in Eng. late. 
I 
us. 
MLO. toln, WK..I, 
MHO. zol, G. ;oll = Icel. tollr = Sw. tall = Dan. 
told (Goth, not recorded), toll, duty, custom; 
orig. 'toln- (OS. tolna, etc.) (In > U by assimila- 
tion), lit. ' that which is counted or told,' from 
a strong pp. of the verb represented by the 
secondary weak form tell, count, etc. : see tell, 
and cf. tale 1 , number, etc. Not connected with 
LL. telonium, < Or. re).uvtov, a custom-house, 
etc. (ML. toloneum, tolonium, tolnetum, etc., 
toll, are perverted forms of telonium. appar. 
simulating toll).] A tax paid, or duty imposed, 
for some use or privilege or other reasonable 
consideration. 
Therfor jelde je to alle men dettls. to whom tribut, 
trlbut, to whom M, tul (custom, A. V.J. 
Wydif, Bom. xiil. 7. 
Toulouse the riche, 
I slf the ... 
The tolle and the tachementez, tavernez and other, 
The towne and the tenementez with towrez so hye, 
That towchcz to the temperaltee, whllles my tyme lastez. 
Morte Arthure(R. E. T. S.), I. 1568. 
The word lull, in Its earliest use, appears to have signi- 
fied a franchise enjoyed by lords of manors, and Is defined 
by Glanvlll as the liberty of buying and selling In one's 
own land. Encyc. Brit., XXIIL 486. 
(a) The payment claimed by the owners of a port for goods 
landed or shipped there. 
Of wine, a toll In the strictest sense of the term was 
taken by the king's officer from every ship having In cargo 
ten casks or more, on the arrival of the ship at a port In 
England viz., one cask from a cargo of ten up to twenty 
casks, and two casks from a cargo of twenty or more, un- 
less the toll formed the subject of a composition in the 
way of a money payment. 
S. Dmrell, Taxes in England, I. 83. 
(6) The sum charged by the owners of a market or fair 
for goods brought to be sold there, or for liberty to break 
the soil for the purpose of erecting temporary structures, 
(e) A portion of grain retained by a miller as compensa- 
tion for grinding, (d) A fixed charge made by those con- 
cerned In the malnUnance of roads, streets, bridges, etc., 
for the passage, as at a toll-gate, of persons, goods, and 
cattle, (e) A compensation for services rendered, espe- 
cially for transportation or transmission : as, canal tout, 
railway tolU, and other charges have raised the price of 
wheat. 
As the expense of carriage Is very much reduced by 
means of such public works, the goods, notwithstanding 
the lull, come cheaper to the consumer than they would 
otherwise have done. 
Adnm Smith, Wealth of Nations, v. 1. 
The estimate for special despatches Includes telegraph 
till* and pay of the correspondents who furnish the news. 
The Century, XL. 280. 
Toll thorough, the toll taken by a town for persons, cat- 
tle, or goods going through It, or crossing a bridge or ferry 
maintained at Its cost. 
Toll thorough Is paid for the use of a highway. In this 
case, if charged by a private person, some consideration, 
such as repair of the highway, must bo shown, as such a 
toll is against common right. Eticyc. Brit., XXIII. 43A. 
Toll traverse, the toll exacted for passage or traffic over 
private land, bridges, ferries, etc. Toll turne, or turn 
toll, a toll paid at the return of beasts from a fair or mar- 
ket where tney were not sold. To run toll, to avoid the 
payment of toll by running through the toll-gate. = 8yn. 
= Dan. tolde, tax. take toll ; from the 
noun.] I. intran*. 1. To pay toll or tailage, 
as on a purchase. 
As ich leyne for the lawe asketb 
Marchaunsforheremerchaundise inmeny place to tollen. 
Pitn Plowman (C% xlv. 61. 
I will buy me a son-in-law in a fair, and toll for this ; 111 
none of him. Shak., All's Well, T. 3. 148. 
2. To take toll; exact or levy toll ; especially, 
to take a portion of grain as compensation for 
grinding. 
Wei coude he stelen corn and tollen thryes. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 502. 
