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churchscot

churchscot noun: a payment once paid to support the clergy, sometimes in the form of livestock, grain, or other crops.

Noun

churchscot (countable and uncountable, plural churchscots)

  1. (historical) A payment once paid to support the clergy, sometimes in the form of livestock, grain, or other crops.

Forms of churchscot

pluralchurchscots
alternative formchurch scot
alternative formchurchshot

Origin of churchscot

From church + scot, and probably also absorbing earlier Middle English chirshet, cherset, chershet ("customary rent paid for the support of the church"; > modern English churchset), from Old English ċiriċsċeatt (“tax or rent paid to the church, church-money, churchscot”), thus also equivalent to church + scat.

Questions about churchscot

What does churchscot mean?
Churchscot means a payment once paid to support the clergy, sometimes in the form of livestock, grain, or other crops.
What part of speech is churchscot?
Churchscot is a noun.
What is the plural of churchscot?
The plural of churchscot is churchscots.

Words near churchscot in the dictionary

  1. churchpeople
  2. churchperson
  3. churchpersons
  4. churchplanter
  5. churchplanters
  6. churchscot
  7. churchscots
  8. churchset
  9. churchship
  10. churchships
  11. Churchstanton

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