Tything vs. Tithing

Tythingnoun

obsolete form of tithing

Tythingnoun

See Tithing.

Tithingnoun

A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):

Tithingnoun

The tithe given as an offering to the church.

Tithingnoun

The payment of tithes.

Tithingnoun

The collection of tithes.

Tithingnoun

(dialectal) Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe-proctor).

Tithingnoun

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.

Tithingnoun

A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.

Tithingnoun

(obsolete) Decimation: the killing of every tenth person or (less often) the killing of every person except each tenth.

Tithingnoun

(obsolete) A reward, grant, or concession.

Tithingverb

inflection of tithe||pres|part

Tithingnoun

The act of levying or taking tithes; that which is taken as tithe; a tithe.

Tithingnoun

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.

Tithingnoun

the practice of taking or paying a tithe

Tithingnoun

(in England) a group of ten householders who lived close together and were collectively responsible for each other's behaviour.

Tithingnoun

a rural division, originally regarded as a tenth of a hundred.

Tithing

A tithing or tything was a historic English legal, administrative or territorial unit, originally ten hides (and hence, one tenth of a hundred). Tithings later came to be seen as subdivisions of a manor or civil parish.