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churchscot

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
church-scot
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

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.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: chirshet, ċiriċsċeatt

Usage

Inflected Forms

churchscots (plural) church scot (alternative) churchshot (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

soulscot

Questions

What does churchscot mean?
A payment once paid to support the clergy, sometimes in the form of livestock, grain, or other crops.
Where does churchscot come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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