local. [f. CHURCH + LITTEN, OE. líctún, a burying enclosure.] A churchyard.

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c. 1420.  Chron. Vilod., 114 (Halliw.). He come into that chirche-lyttoun.

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1674.  Ray, S. & E. Country Wds., 61. The Church-litten; the Church yard. Suss.

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1852.  W. Cooper, Gloss. Sussex.

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1875.  Parish, Sussex Gloss., Church-litten, a church-yard.

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1881.  Isle Wight Gloss. (E. D. S.).

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