Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In England, a rate raised, by resolution of a majority of the parishioners in vestry assembled, from the occupiers of land and houses within a parish, for the purpose of maintaining the church and its services.
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Examples
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In 1840 he led a movement against the Rochdale church-rate, speaking from a tombstone in the churchyard, where it looks down on the town in the valley below.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Two agitations were then going on in Rochdale -- the first (in which Jacob Bright was a leader) in opposition to a local [v. 04 p. 0567] church-rate, and the second for parliamentary reform, by which Rochdale successfully claimed to have a member allotted to it under the Reform Bill.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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I hold that to quote Scripture in defense of church-rate is the very height of presumption.
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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It was he who started the church-rate and debarred defaulters from Easter Communion.
Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910
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As to a church-rate to repair th 'owd steeple-house, why, my advice is to pull th' owd thing down, stick and stone, and mend your roads with it.
Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885
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On one occasion there was a most hot debate on the voting of a church-rate, which should embrace a new pulpit.
Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885
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I hold that to quote Scripture in defense of church-rate is the very height of presumption.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Elbert Hubbard 1885
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The most that could be accomplished was the provision that dissenters might escape the church-rate by supporting a church of their own.
The Critical Period of American History John Fiske 1871
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It was an 'optional church-rate,' and the very fact that it was so, would make Jews who were, or wished to be considered, patriotic or religious, the more punctilious in paying it.
Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Mr Templeton, then, had refused, as a point of conscience, to pay the church-rate when the collector went round to demand it; had been summoned before a magistrate in consequence; had suffered a default; and, proceedings being pushed from the first in all the pride of Mr
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood George MacDonald 1864
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