Word Finder - tribute

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An acknowledgment of gratitude, respect or admiration; an accompanying gift.

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Please accept this as a tribute of our thanks.

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A payment made by one nation to another in submission.

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The Ancient Romans made their conquered countries pay tribute.

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Extortion; protection money.

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A payment made by a feudal vassal to his lord.

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A certain proportion of the mined ore, or of its value, given to the miner as payment.

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To pay as tribute.

In some places he pays an annual tribute in grapes, corn and other produce.

A metropolis demanded tribute and military support from its subject cities but left their local cults and customs unaffected.

The tribute was gradually increased.

This latter idea was the more likely to arise, as the gift theory of sacrifice is closely associated with that of the god as the ruler or king to whom man brings a tribute, just as he had to appear before his earthly king bearing gifts in his hands.

As ruler of the nation the high priest paid its tribute to Egypt, its overlord.

It is difficult, moreover, not to connect the repeated wall-paintings and reliefs of the palace illustrating the cruel bull sports of the Minoan arena, in which girls as well as youths took part, with the legend of the Minotaur, or bull of Minos, for whose grisly meals Athens was forced to pay annual tribute of her sons and daughters.

There the king, probably also high priest of the prevailing nature-cult, built a great stone palace, and received the tribute of feudatories, of whom, probably, the prince of Phaestus, who commanded the Messara plain, was chief.

The park stands out as a small tribute to nature surrounded by imposing skyscrapers.

He punished the Frisii who refused to pay the tribute, and was on the point of advancing against the Chauci, but was recalled by the emperor and ordered to withdraw behind the Rhine.

In the intervals the people had to pay a fixed tribute.

The estimated gross revenue is £27,189; the tribute, £1460.

Their work among the Fuegians drew a warm tribute from Charles Darwin.

After a dilatory war of three years he concluded a peace on the ground of free commercial relations, and then he attacked the Livonian Order, on the pretext that the Livonian town of Dorpat had not paid tribute according to ancient treaties.

Tribute was received from Tyre and Sidon; and Jehu, who was now king of Israel, sent his gifts of gold, silver, &c., to the conqueror.

On his accession the Moabites refused any longer to pay tribute.

Warren Hastings, as a deliberate measure of policy, withheld the tribute due to the emperor, and resold Allahabad and Kora to the wazir of Oudh.

Other peoples were introduced, officers were placed in charge, and the usual tribute re-imposed.

Nestor, an old monkish chronicler Origin of Kiev, relates that in the middle of the 9th century of the the Slav and Finnish tribes inhabiting the forest region around Lake Ilmen, between Lake Ladoga and the upper waters of the Dnieper, paid tribute to military adventurers from the land of Ras, which is commonly supposed to have been a part of Sweden.

In subsequent negotiations he accepted the disarmament of the besieged and a tribute as conditions of peace, and in response to their entreaty left Jerusalem without a garrison.

The reasons for borrowing are famine and tribute.

In 1366 the king of Servia was defeated at Samakov and forced to pay tribute.

He had been more set on exacting tribute than on perpetrating wanton massacres.

In return, a certain customary tribute was paid.

The exclusive animated sequences in the ride's queue also include an animated cameo by Back to the Future scientist Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) in a subtle tribute to the now defunct attraction.

The care and precision used to create these exquisite gems is no less than the love the stones represent, and can be a fitting tribute to any timeless relationship.

Evagoras was allowed to remain nominally king of Salamis, but in reality a vassal of Persia, to which he was to pay a yearly tribute.

By withholding the tribute which Irene had agreed to pay to Harun al-Rashid, Nicephorus committed himself to a war with the Saracens.

The coast is chiefly occupied by Arab tribes who were virtually independent, paying merely a nominal tribute to the shah's government until 1898.

He consented to pay an increased tribute to the Avars and allowed the Persians, who had declared war in 604 under Chosroes II., to overrun the Asiatic provinces and to penetrate to the Bosporus.

In that year the tribute of the allies was commuted for a 5% tax on all imports and exports by sea.

In the first place there is the question of the tribute.

It was then discovered that the Bhutias had usurped several tracts of low land lying at the foot of the mountains, called the Dwars or passes, and for these they agreed to pay a small tribute.

The knights of St John having been driven from Rhodes by the Turks, obtained the grant of Malta, Gozo and Tripoli in 1530 from the emperor Charles V., subject to a reversion in favour of the emperor's successor in the kingdom of Aragon should the knights leave Malta, and to the annual tribute of a falcon in acknowledgment that Malta was under the suzerainty of Spain.

For most of the period in question Thucydides is the only source; and despite the inherent merits of a great writer, it can hardly be doubted that the tribute of almost unqualified praise that successive generations of scholars have paid to Thucydides must have been in some measure qualified if, for example, a Spartan account of the Peloponnesian War had been preserved to us.

The wars which attended his accession both in Hungary and in Persia terminated unfavourably for Turkey, and her prestige received its first check in the peace of Sitvattirok, signed in 1606, whereby the annual tribute paid by Austria was abolished.

Caesar now reduced Gaul to the form of a province, fixing the tribute at 40,000,000 sesterces (350,000), and dealing liberally with the conquered tribes, whose cantons were not broken up.

It was not merely for conquest and tribute that the fierce Mexicans ravaged the neighbourlands, but they had a stronger motive than either in the desire to obtain multitudes of prisoners whose hearts were to be torn out by the sacrificing priests to propitiate a pantheon of gods who well personified their bloodthirsty worshippers.

He had endeavoured to pay part of his tribute to the Christian king with false money.

Naples refused him tribute; Joseph II.

It refused tribute to Xerxes, and sent one ship to fight on the Greek side at Salamis.

Some of its rulers send also tribute missions to Peking.

Gantarawadi pays a regular tribute of Rs.

But all of these pay tribute to the sultan, or in.

In addition to being a tribute to one of television's most popular fictional families, The Simpsons Ride is also a tribute to responsible technology.

The show did well, but in 1973, it was replaced with The Walt Disney Story attraction, a tribute to the park's founder.

Two years, later, Mr. Lincoln returned, however, it was combined with Walt Disney's tribute.

As a form of tribute for those who helped them make the game a breakaway success, Squaresoft made an entire series to follow.

Oh, and they offer a few Dreamcast titles, which I like to think is to pay tribute to a system that died well before its time.

A native of Hong Kong, Fei Long is a tribute to Bruce Lee, complete with the loud battle cries and vocalizations to accompany his kung fu maneuvers.

He thought the name sounded pleasant and significant and named the series after her as sort of a tribute.