tithable
Americanadjective
adjective
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(until 1936) liable to pay tithes
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(of property, etc) subject to the payment of tithes
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of tithable
First recorded in 1400–50, tithable is from the late Middle English word tythable. See tithe, -able
Example Sentences
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I come, therefore, now to speak of the levies, which are a certain rate or proportion of tobacco charged upon the head of every tithable person in the country, upon all alike, without distinction.
From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley
A search through the patent rolls, wills, tithable lists and other data found in the records of the period, has led to the more or less positive identification of fifteen of these persons.
From The Planters of Colonial Virginia by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker
The law of 1645 provided for a tax on property and tithable persons.
From A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia by Benjamin Griffith Brawley
It was also ordered that every tithable person should produce one pound of dressed hemp and one pound of dressed flax or two pounds of either annually.
From Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Lyman Carrier
The three levies were all collected by the sheriffs; they averaged about one hundred pounds of tobacco for each tithable, the aggregate amounting to two millions of pounds per annum.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell
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