tithing
n. 什一的课税, 十家区
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释义与例句
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1.
A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):
The tithe given as an offering to the church.
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A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):
The payment of tithes.
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A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):
The collection of tithes.
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4.
Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe proctor).
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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.
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A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
历史 法律
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1.
present participle and gerund of tithe
词源
From Middle English tithyng, from Old English tēoþung or tēoðung, from tēoða (“a tithe”) + -ing (suffix forming patronymics and diminutives) and tēoþian (“to tithe”) + -ung (suffix forming verbal nouns). Equivalent to tithe + -ing.
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