tithing noun. ['tʌɪðɪŋ]
[Old English tēoÞung, from tēoÞa TITHE noun or tēoÞian TITHE verb: see -ING¹, -ING³.]
1. = TITHE noun 1. OE.

2. Hist. Orig., a company of ten householders in the system of frank-pledge; later, a rural division originally regarded as one tenth of a hundred. OE.

3. A tenth part of anything. ME-E17.

Comb.:
tithingman Hist. (a) orig., the chief man of a tithing (see sense 2 above); later, a parish peace-officer or petty constable; (b) in Maryland and New England: an elective officer of a township, whose functions included the prevention of disorderly conduct or enforcement of order during religious services.

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