Tithe

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Tithe, n. [OE. tithe, tethe, properly an adj., tenth, AS. teóa the tenth; akin to tién, tn, tēn, ten, G. zehnte, adj., tenth, n., a tithe, Icel. tīund the tenth; tithe, Goth. taíhunda tenth. See Ten, and cf. Tenth, Teind.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  " 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."  Blackstone.  [1913 Webster]

  "The tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil."  [1913 Webster]
•  Hence, a small part or proportion.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

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.] Simmonds.

Tithe, a. 

 Tenth.  [1913 Webster]
"Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand."  [1913 Webster]

Tithe, v. t. [As. teóian.].

 To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on.  [1913 Webster]
"Ye tithe mint and rue."  [1913 Webster]

Tithe, v. i. 

 Tp pay tithes.  Tusser.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Tithe, n. & v.
--n.
1 one tenth of the annual produce of land or labour, formerly taken as a tax for the support of the Church and clergy.
2 a tenth part.
--v.
1 tr. subject to tithes.
2 intr. pay tithes.

Idiom

tithe barn a barn built to hold tithes paid in kind.

Derivative

tithable adj.

Etymology

OE teogotha tenth

THESAURUS

Tithe

alms, alms fee, ask, assess, assessment, cess, charge, charge for, charity, collection, conscience money, contribution, decagonal, decahedral, decasyllabic, decimal, decimalization, decimation, decuple, demand, denary, direct tax, dole, donation, donative, duty, exact, fifth, graduated taxation, handout, impose, imposition, impost, indirect tax, joint return, levy, make dutiable, offering, offertory, pittance, pro rata, progressive tax, prorate, quinquepartition, quinquesection, require, separate returns, sextipartition, single tax, sixth, stick for, subscription, supertax, surtax, tax, tax base, tax dodging, tax evasion, tax exemption, tax return, tax structure, tax withholding, tax-exempt status, taxable income, taxation, tenfold, tenth, toll, tribute, votive offering, withholding tax

ROGET THESAURUS

Tithe

Quinquesection

N quinquesection, &c, division by five, quinquesection, decimation, fifth, quinquefid, quinquelateral, quinquepartite, quinqevalent, pentavalent, quinquarticular, octifid, decimal, tenth, tithe, duodecimal, twelfth, sexagesimal, sexagenary, hundredth, centesimal, millesimal.

Price

N price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure, demand, damage, fare, hire, wages, value, dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess, sess, tallage, levy, abkari, capitation tax, poll tax, doomage, likin, gabel, gabelle, gavel, octroi, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tithe, tenths, exactment, ransom, salvage, tariff, brokerage, wharfage, freightage, bill, shot, priced, to the tune of, ad valorem, dutiable, mercenary, venal, no penny no paternoster, point d'argent point de Suisse, no longer pipe no longer dance, no song no supper, if you dance you have to pay the piper, you get what you pay for, there's no such thing as a free lunch, one may have it for, a bon marche.