frankpledge vs tenth

frankpledge

noun
  • A form of collective suretyship and punishment under English law among the members of a tithing. 

  • A decener: a member of a tithing bound in frankpledge. 

  • Any group so similarly answerable for the conduct of all its members and liable for collective punishment. 

  • The tithing itself. 

tenth

noun
  • A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject. 

  • The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position. 

  • One of ten equal parts of a whole. 

  • The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third. 

adj
  • Being one of ten equal parts of a whole. 

  • The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth. 

verb
  • To divide by ten, into tenths. 

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