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单词 modus decimandi
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modus decimandi
3. In full modus decimandi. A method of paying tithes other than the one which is usual or prevalent; esp. a money payment made in lieu of a tithe.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [noun] > tithe > consisting of money payment
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growth-halfpenny1676
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1618 J. Selden Hist. Tithes x. 288 Where any..Prescription or Custome hath setled a Modus Decimandi or certain quantitie payable, though never so little, for the Tithe.
1675 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (ed. 2) vii. 99 It is to be wished that there were some more certain Modus in lieu of that troublesome way of Tything.
1683 Canidia iii. xvi. 149 Against Tithes there's no Prescription, But they may be cut off by Composition. 'Tis..a good Modus Decimandi.
1687 N. Johnston Assurance Abby & Church-lands 31 Also Modus of Tithes was another Infringement of the Canons.
1747 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 57/1 The ancient Modusses and compositions for tythes.
1763 R. Burn Eccl. Law II. 388 Of modus's, or exemptions from payment of tithes in kind.
1793 Hollym Inclos. Act 13 A modus of one shilling a score of all lambs lambed and living at Midsummer.
1843 R. Meeson & W. N. Welsby Rep. Cases Exchequer (1844) XI. 676 The plaintiff was..employed in maintaining and upholding the said moduses.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. vi. 137 The spiritual person who still took his tithe-pig or his modus.
1895 E. C. Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable (rev. ed.) 1154/2 Smoke Silver, a modus of 6d. in lieu of tithe firewood.
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