Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Subject to the payment of tithes, as property; capable of being tithed.
- Assessable for tithes, or for the payment of any tax to a parish, as a person.
- noun A person by or for whom tithes or parish taxes were payable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Subject to the payment of tithes.
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- adjective Subject to the
payment oftithes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Each year the vestry laid the parish levy of a certain number of pounds of tobacco upon each "tithable" — that is, every male white person, and every negro or Indian servant above sixteen years of age, the taxes of the family, and of the servants being paid by the master, or head of the household.
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The Committee therefore voted: “It is . . . recommended that the sum of three shillings per poll . . . be paid by and for every tithable person in this County, to the Sheriff or such other collector as may be appointed, who is to render the same to this Committee, with a list of the names of such persons as shall refuse to pay the same, if any such there be.”
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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The Committee therefore voted: “It is . . . recommended that the sum of three shillings per poll . . . be paid by and for every tithable person in this County, to the Sheriff or such other collector as may be appointed, who is to render the same to this Committee, with a list of the names of such persons as shall refuse to pay the same, if any such there be.”
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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The Committee therefore voted: “It is . . . recommended that the sum of three shillings per poll . . . be paid by and for every tithable person in this County, to the Sheriff or such other collector as may be appointed, who is to render the same to this Committee, with a list of the names of such persons as shall refuse to pay the same, if any such there be.”
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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The Committee therefore voted: “It is . . . recommended that the sum of three shillings per poll . . . be paid by and for every tithable person in this County, to the Sheriff or such other collector as may be appointed, who is to render the same to this Committee, with a list of the names of such persons as shall refuse to pay the same, if any such there be.”
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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Commutation Act came it was a great relief alike to the clergyman and the farmers and landowners, and did away with a longstanding cause of strife and litigation, especially in a town like Royston, where a farmer might have tithable produce in several parishes.
Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston
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But church lands are not tithable, even though they be within the boundaries of another parish.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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He also received one pound of tobacco out of the county levy for each tithable in his precinct, and was exempt from payment of taxes, and from jury service, while in office.
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Page view page image: of the same by drafting all able-bodied, tithable males, to perform
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Land at twenty shillings per hundred acres was offered to each emigrant settling within the territory and raising a crop of corn before September 1, 1775, the emigrant being permitted to take up as much as five hundred acres for him self and two hundred and fifty acres for each tithable person under him.
The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 Archibald Henderson 1920
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