Definitions For Tithingman

Noun

{{en-noun, tithingmen}} (legal, historical) The chief of a tithing. (obsolete) A ruler or leader of ten men; a decurion. (UK, legal) A peace officer; an underconstable. (US, Maryland, _, and, _, New England, _, dialect, historical) A parish officer elected annually to preserve good order in the church during divine service, to make complaint of any disorderly conduct, and to enforce the observance of the sabbath. A tithe proctor: a collector of tithes.

Synonyms

chief of a tithing headborough, decener, borsholder peace officer See underconstable collector of tithes See tithe proctor

Translations

Russian: {{t-check, ru, старшина́ округ, о́круга, m}} {{attention, ru, 2=was "старшина округ, округа" - assumed sum-of-parts; if an idiom, remove the wikilinks to the individual words. see user:kephir/gadgets/xte#translation_fixing}}

Etymology

tithing + man