单词 | tithing |
释义 | tithing/ˈtʌɪðɪŋ /noun 1 [mass noun] The practice of taking or paying a tithe: receipts from tithing range from $2.5 billion to $4.3 billion each year...
2 historical (In England) a group of ten householders who lived close together and were collectively responsible for each other’s behaviour.Even this was not the bottom of the ladder: for law enforcement the population was organized into groups of ten mutually responsible households or ‘tithings’....
2.1A rural division, originally regarded as a tenth of a hundred.After this, each hundred was further divided under Athelstan into groups of ten freemen called tithings, of which there seem to have been ten in every hundred. OriginOld English tēothung (see tithe, -ing1). Rhymes |
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