单词 | tithe owner |
释义 | > as lemmastithe owner tithe owner n. a person holding the right to tithes; a person to whom tithes are due. ΚΠ 1741 T. Hayter Exam. Bk. Quakers Diocese of York 36 The Tythe-Owners could not support their Right. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 468 The tithe-owner refused three guineas per acre for the tithe of the barley. 1986 O. Rackham Hist. Countryside viii. 165 One-tenth of the crop of each strip was due as tithe to the tithe-owner of one of the dozen ecclesiastical parishes into which Cambridge was divided. 2011 C. Cordle Out of Hay & into Hops vi. 127 Decisions..about their [sc. hops and other crops] collection by, or despatch to, the tithe owners. < as lemmas |
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