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noun

Tithe n.

A tenth; the tenth part of anything; specifically, the tenthpart of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses. Almost all the tithes of England and Wales are commuted by law into rent charges. "The tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil." Note: Tithes are called personal when accuring from labor, art, trade, and navigation; predial, when issuing from the earth, as hay, wood, and fruit; and mixed, when accuring from beaste fed from the ground.

Hence, a small part or proportion.

Great tithes, tithes of corn, hay, and wood.

Mixed tithes, tithes of wool, milk, pigs, etc.

Small tithes, personal and mixed tithes.

Tithe commissioner, one of a board of officers appointed by the government for arranging propositions for commuting, or compounding for, tithes. (Eng.)

verb

Tithe v. t. (past & past part. tithed; pres. part. tithing) To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on. "Ye tithe mint and rue."

Tithe v. i. Tp pay tithes. (R.)

adjective

Tithe adj. Tenth. (Obs.) "Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand."

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"Tithe" Quotes from Famous Books

... written better perhaps, than any other of their critics. I am certain that of many works that he has reviewed, and of many writers whose general pretensions he has estimated better than anybody else has done, he never read one tithe." "My Friends and Acquaintances," ...

— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin

... had been taken by surprise. Mrs. Verner received the news with equanimity. She had never given Fred a tithe of the love that John had had, and she did not seem much to care whether he married Sibylla, or whether he did not—whether he went out to Australia, or whether he stayed at home. Frederick told her of it in a very off-hand manner; but he took pains to bespeak ...

— Verner's Pride • Mrs. Henry Wood

... I brocht the story o' my life, or perhaps, rather o' my unfortunate name, (no a'thegither so unfortunate either, since it helped me to sic a wife,) and I maun stop; but it's for want o' room, and, I assure you, no for want o' matter. What I hae tell't ye is no a tithe o' the sufferings I hae endured through this unhappy patronymic o' mine. In truth, it was but the beginnin o' them. The rest I may relate to ye on some future day. In the meantime, guid reader, I bid ye fareweel, wi' a sincere houp that yer ...

— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III • Various

... Presently a leopard stole down to the brink and lapped the water greedily, from time to time throwing a hasty, apprehensive glance over his sleek shoulders. The buffaloes never stirred; where they were it was safe. Across the river a bulky shadow moved into the light, and a fat, brown bear took his tithe of the water. The leopard snarled and slunk off. The bear washed his face, possibly sticky with purloined wild honey, and betook himself back to ...

— The Adventures of Kathlyn • Harold MacGrath

... successor. He died A.D. 741, leaving a memory detested by the Church of his own country on account of his having been obliged to appropriate from its property sufficient for the payment of his army. He had taken a tithe from the revenues of the churches and convents for that purpose. The ignorant clergy, alive only to their present temporal interests, and not appreciating the great salvation he had wrought out for them, could never forgive him. Their inconceivable greed could not bear ...

— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper

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