Definition of CHURCHSCOT

churchscot

Meanings

Plural: churchscots

Noun

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

Origin / 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.

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