churchscot

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noun

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

OriginMiddle English chirshet ← Old English ċiriċsċeatt →
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Meanings

nounchurchscot (countable and uncountable, plural churchscots)

plural churchscots · alternative church scot · alternative churchshot

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

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
churchset

Origin

  1. Old Englishċiriċsċeatt“tax or rent paid to the church, church-money, churchscot”
  2. Middle Englishchirshet
  3. Englishchurchscot

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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APA

churchscot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/churchscot

MLA

“churchscot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/churchscot. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “churchscot,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/churchscot.

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