ˈtithe-man
[f. tithe n.1 + man n.1]
† 1. = tithingman1 a. Obs. rare.
| c 1450 Godstow Reg. 69 At þe lawdai..william edrich, tetheman, & his felawis I-swore, presentid þat [etc.]. |
† 2. U.S. = tithingman1 c. Obs. rare.
| 1638–9 Laws Maryland in Archives Md. (1883) I. 54 The Lord of every Mannour..Shall yearly..nominate some Inhabitant of the Mannour..to be tithman of that Mannour. |
† 3. One who pays tithes. Obs. rare.
| 1680 C. Nesse Church Hist. 186 By their Seventh-year Sabbath they [Israelites] acknowledged that their Land belonged to God, and that they were onely Gods tenants and tythe-men. |
4. A collector of tithes; = tithing-man2. Now Hist.
| 1747 Hooson Miner's Dict. V iv, In my time I have known it taken every twentieth Dish in some Places by the Tyth⁓man; in others every tenth. 1772 T. Simpson Vermin-Killer 19 Crows are worse than tithe-men, as they take their tithes at three different times a year. c 1830 Glouc. Farm Rep. 22 in Libr. Usef. Knowl., Husb. III, Nothing can be more galling to an industrious man, than that..the tithe-man should come and take the tenth of the fruits of his industry, capital and talent. 1898 J. A. Gibbs Cotswold Vill. 36 The titheman came with the parson's horses and took the stuff away to the barn. |