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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

... among these mountains and lakes, sketching and painting the transcendently beautiful views they everywhere present. There is nothing like them on all this continent. We talk about the scenery of Lake George. It is all tame and spiritless compared with what may be seen here; it possesses not a tithe of the variety, the bold and grand, the placid and beautiful, all mingled, and changing always, as you pass from point to point along these lakes. Why do not the artists whose business it is to make the "canvas speak," drift out this way, ...

— Wild Northern Scenes - Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod • S. H. Hammond

... with all his superstition and all his desire for order, was perfectly free from any delusions about the good old times. He liked to see his children baptised; but he had no desire to see the priest's tithe-collector back in his barn: he shuddered at the summary marketing of Conventional Commissioners; but he had no wish to resume his labours on the fields of his late seigneur. To be a Monarchist in 1795, among the shopkeepers of Paris or the farmers of Normandy, meant no more ...

— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe

... a temporary vault in the Catholic chapel of Chislehurst. The building was too small to admit a tithe of the crowd of French people who were present, but those who could not enter the chapel knelt throughout the service on the damp grass of the churchyard. When the funeral party returned to Camden ...

— Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 • Stuart J. Reid, ed.

... long-established usage, as well as that new departure and that threatened innovation;—it is all, at its best, always the penny and never the pound. Satan busied me about the lesser matters of religion, says James Fraser of Brea, and made me neglect the more substantial points. He made me tithe to God my mint, and my anise and my cummin, and many other of my herbs, to my all but complete neglect of justice and mercy and faith and love. Whether there are any of the things that Brea would call mint and anise ...

— Bunyan Characters - Third Series - The Holy War • Alexander Whyte

... without education, except such as he had picked up in the rough school of war. He had little even of that wisdom which springs from natural shrewdness and insight into character. In all this he was inferior to his elder brothers, although he fully equalled them in ambition. Had he possessed a tithe of their sagacity, he would not have madly persisted in rebellion, after the coming of the president. Before this period, he represented the people. Their interests and his were united. He had their support, for he was contending for the redress of their wrongs. When these ...

— History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William Hickling Prescott

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