To take tithing of their blood and sweat. --Motley.
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2. (O. Eng. Law) A number or company of ten householders who, dwelling near each other, were sureties or frankpledges to the king for the good behavior of each other; a decennary. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
tithing — In Western ecclesiastical law, the act of paying a percentage of one s income to further religious purposes. One of the political subdivisions of England that was composed of ten families who held freehold estates. Dictionary from West s… … Law dictionary
tithing — [tīth′iŋ] n. [ME < OE teothung] 1. a levying or paying of tithes 2. TITHE 3. Historical in England, a unit of civil administration originally consisting of ten families … English World dictionary
Tithing — Le tithing était, dans l Angleterre médiévale, une unité de mesure de superficie agraire, équivalent à 1/10 de hundred, ou 10 hides. Sur cette terre on prélevait une taxe, tithe, équivalente de la dîme. Cette terre était sous la responsabilité d… … Wikipédia en Français
Tithing — Tithe Tithe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tithed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tithing}.] [As. te[ o]?ian.] To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on. [1913 Webster] Ye tithe mint and rue. Luke xi. 42. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Tithing — 1) Peace keeping group of variable size (most men over 12 years of age were enrolled in a tithing). (Bennett, Judith M. Women in the Medieval English Countryside, 235) 2) Unit of ten or twelve village men mutually responsible for each other s… … Medieval glossary
tithing — an old English unit of land area equal to 1/10 hundred or 10 hides. Very roughly, the tithing was about 12 acres or a little less than 5 hectares … Dictionary of units of measurement
tithing — /tayflig/ Act of paying tithes. One of the civil divisions of England, being a portion of that greater division called a hundred. It was so called because ten freeholders with their families composed one. It is said that they were all knit… … Black's law dictionary
Tithing (country subdivision) — The English land division called the tithing was one tenth of a hundred, or equal to ten (Scandinavian: ten = ti , assembly = thing ) Allied to this concept was a local administrative unit also called a tithing, with essentially legal… … Wikipedia
tithing-man — /tayfligmabn/ A constable. After the introduction of justices of the peace, the offices of constable and tithing man became so similar that they were regarded as precisely the same. In New England, a parish officer annually elected to preserve… … Black's law dictionary
tithing penny — noun Etymology: tithing (I) : a small customary duty traditionally paid under old English law: a. : one paid by the tenants of a manor to the lord b. : one paid by the lord of a manor at the hundred court c. : one paid by each tithing to the… … Useful english dictionary
