churchscot
churchscot · churchscots
A payment once paid to support the clergy, sometimes in the form of livestock, grain,…A payment once paid to support the clergy, sometimes in the form of livestock, grain, or other crops.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, historical, uncountable)A payment once paid to support the clergy, sometimes in the form of livestock, grain, or other crops.
Origin
From church + scot, and probably also absorbing earlier Middle English chirshet, cherset,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.
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Forms
plural: churchscotsWord family
1 related wordsRelatedsoulscot
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable