tithing

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):; The tithe given as an offering to the church.
    — I prayed for the sick and saw some of them healed under my hands. I was given tithings of money and food by people who had not enough to eat themselves.
  2. A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):; The payment of tithes.
  3. A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):; The collection of tithes.
  4. Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe proctor). dialectal
    — I see the boys of summer in their ruin / Lay the gold tithings barren, / Setting no store by harvest, freeze the soils
  5. 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
  6. A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory. historical
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of tithe form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

tithings plural

词汇关系

近义词
tenth and tithe
衍生词
tithing-barn tithing days tithingman tithing-man tithing-penny tithing port tithing-sheaf tithing-system tithing table tithing-time

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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