tithing
English
Etymology 1
From tithe + -ing[1] or Old English tēoþung or tēoðung, from tēoða (“tithe, n.”) + -ing (“forming patronymics & diminutives”) and tēoðian (“tithe, v.”) + -ung (“forming verbal nouns”).[2]
Noun
tithing (plural tithings)
- A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):
- (dialectal) Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe-proctor).
- (historical, law) A body of households (originally a tenth of a hundred or ten households) bound by frankpledge to collective responsibility and punishment for each other's behavior.
- (historical, law) A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
- (obsolete) Decimation: the killing of every tenth person or (less often) the killing of every person except each tenth.
Synonyms
- (tenth): See tenth and tithe
- (oath-bound division of the hundred): decenary, decime, frankpledge, fribourg
Derived terms
- tithingman, tithing-man
- tithing-barn
- tithing days
- tithing-penny
- tithing port
- tithing-sheaf
- tithing-system
- tithing table
- tithing-time
See also
- (oath-bound division of the hundred, adj.): decenary
- (oath-bound division of the hundred, leader): See tithingman
- (oath-bound division of the hundred, member): See decenary
Etymology 2
From tithe in the sense deriving from Old English tigþian (“to grant, concede”).[3]
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "tithing, n.2" Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1912.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "tithing, n.1" Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1912.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "† tithe, v.1" Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1912.
Anagrams
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