churchscot

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

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Etymology

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.

noun

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

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Words closest in meaning

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chiefrie 61% match — A small rent paid to the lord paramount. vs churchscot →
chiefry 60% match — A rent paid to a chief or supreme lord. vs churchscot →
scot 57% match — A person born in or native to Scotland. vs churchscot →
chiefage 56% match — A tribute by the chief; a kind of poll tax. vs churchscot →
pishcash 56% match — To pay an offering or tribute to. vs churchscot →
churchset 56% match — Synonym of churchscot. vs churchscot →
soulscot 55% match — A funeral payment, formerly made at the grave, usually to the parish priest in whose church service for the departed had been said; a mortuary. vs churchscot →
avercorn 55% match — A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers. vs churchscot →