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ˈtithe-ˌproctor
An agent employed to collect a parson's tithes, or one who farmed the tithe; = proctor1 2 c.
1780A. Young Tour Irel. I. 103 They begun with the tythe-proctors, (who are men that hire tythes of the rectors) and these proctors either screwed the cotters up to the utmost shilling, or re-let the tythes to such as did it. 1807,1898[see proctor1 2 c]. 1817Lady Morgan France i. (1818) I. 46 The frugal savings of laborious industry do not go to feed the rapacity of the tythe-proctor. 1879Morley Burke ii. 24 A church which tried to spread Christianity by the brotherly agency of the tithe-proctor. |