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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tithe
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
barn
▪ Take the horses out and lead them over to the tithe barn.
▪ The tithe barns, the Rectory, the toll bridges no longer controlled daily life, but they still punctuated the landscape.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house.
▪ In 1936 tithe rentcharge was abolished.
▪ In addition, parish priests were feeling the pinch through reduced income from alms and tithes.
▪ It could not support a tithe of the population.
▪ On the tithe map 1731, the name still appears, farming land from the marshes to Upper Halling.
▪ Some one else would get the perks of office; whereas a rector received the full tithes.
▪ Take the horses out and lead them over to the tithe barn.
▪ The abbot of Halesowen received £1 a year from the tithes of Dudley, Worcs., and the vicar of Hailes 10s.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tithe

Tithe \Tithe\, n. [OE. tithe, tethe, properly an adj., tenth, AS. te['o]?a the tenth; akin to ti['e]n, t?n, t[=e]n, ten, G. zehnte, adj., tenth, n., a tithe, Icel. t[=i]und the tenth; tithe, Goth. ta['i]hunda tenth. See Ten, and cf. Tenth, Teind.]

  1. 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.
    --Neh. xiii. 5.

    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.
    --Blackstone.

  2. Hence, a small part or proportion.
    --Bacon.

    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

Tithe \Tithe\, a. Tenth. [Obs.]

Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand.
--Shak.

Tithe

Tithe \Tithe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tithed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tithing.] [As. te['o]?ian.] To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on.

Ye tithe mint and rue.
--Luke xi. 42.

Tithe

Tithe \Tithe\, v. i. Tp pay tithes. [R.]
--Tusser.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tithe

a tenth part (originally of produce) due as support of the clergy, c.1200, from Old English teogoþa (Anglian), teoþa (West Saxon) "tenth," from Proto-Germanic *teguntha, from PIE *dekmto-, from *dekm "ten" (see ten). Retained in ecclesiastical sense while the form was replaced in ordinal use by tenth.

tithe

Old English teoþian "to pay one-tenth," from the root of tithe (n.). As "to impose a payment of a tenth," late 14c. Related: Tithed; tithing.

Wiktionary
tithe
  1. (context archaic English) tenth. n. 1 (context archaic English) A tenth. 2 The tenth part 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. Concept originates in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament). 3 A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship. 4 A small part or proportion. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To collect a tithe. 2 (context intransitive English) To pay a tithe. 3 (context transitive English) To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth.

WordNet
tithe
  1. v. exact a tithe from; "The church was tithed"

  2. levy a tithe on (produce or a crop); "The wool was thithed"

  3. pay one tenth of; pay tithes on, especially to the church; "He tithed his income to the Church"

  4. pay a tenth of one's income, especially to the church; "Although she left the church officially, she still tithes"

tithe
  1. n. a levy of one tenth of something

  2. an offering of a tenth part of some personal income

Wikipedia
Tithe

A tithe (; from Old English: teogoþa "tenth") is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government. Today, tithes are normally voluntary and paid in cash, cheques, or stocks, whereas historically tithes were required and paid in kind, such as agricultural products. Several European countries operate a formal process linked to the tax system allowing some churches to assess tithes.

Traditional Jewish law and practice has included various forms of tithing since ancient times. Orthodox Jews commonly practice ma'aser kesafim (tithing 10% of their income to charity). In modern Israel, Jews continue to follow the laws of agricultural tithing, e.g., ma'aser rishon, terumat ma'aser, and ma'aser sheni. In Christianity, some interpretations of Biblical teachings conclude that although tithing was practiced extensively in the Old Testament, it was never practiced or taught within the first-century Church. Instead, the New Testament scriptures are seen as teaching the concept of "freewill offerings" as a means of supporting the church: , . Also, some of the earliest groups sold everything they had and held the proceeds in common to be used for the furtherance of the Gospel: , . Further, contains the account of a man and wife ( Ananias and Sapphira) who were living in one of these groups. They sold a piece of property and donated only part of the selling price to the church but claimed to have given the whole amount and immediately fell down and died when confronted by the apostle Peter over their dishonesty.

Tithes were mentioned at the Council of Tours in 567 and the Synod of Mâcon in 585. They were formally recognized under Pope Adrian I in 787.

Tithe (Latter Day Saints)

Tithing is a commandment accepted by various churches in the Latter Day Saint movement in which adherents make willing tithe donations, usually ten percent of their income, to their church. It is based on both the biblical practice of paying tithes and modern revelation given to Joseph Smith and his accepted successors. The adoption of tithing and fast offerings as the economic foundation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) marked a shift from the earlier communal period of the law of consecration.

Usage examples of "tithe".

I entirely agree with you, that the abolition of agistment tithe in Ireland by a vote of the Irish House of Commons, and without any remuneration to the Church, was a most scandalous and Jacobinical measure.

They gave him a right to all the annates and tithes of benefices which had formerly been paid to the court of Rome.

Lucksparrow had that it was fortunate another member of the profession should be at hand, and by the success with which the Archdeacon, dizzy and yet equable, concealed his own feelings when his visitor, chatting of Prayer Book Revision, parish councils, and Tithe Acts, imported to them a high eternal flavour which savoured of Deity Itself.

Those which are termed fashionable, and which imitate the expensiveness of the hotels without furnishing a tithe of their comforts, are located in the Fifth avenue, Broadway, and the Fourth avenue, or near those streets.

Masapo as many cattle as I have, whereof those which you see are but a tithe brought as a lobola gift to the father of her who had been promised to me as wife?

I cannot see the slightest reason why the Irish labourer is to be relieved from the real onus, or from anything else but the name of tithe.

One evening when his good woman was still with him, after supper, during which he had enjoyed his goose, his wench, his wine, and everything, and was reclining in his chair thinking where he could build a new barn for the tithes, a message came for him from the lord of Sacche, who was giving up the ghost and wished to reconcile himself with God, receive the sacrament, and go through the usual ceremonies.

So he built a house at Hanakawado, in Asakusa, and lived there with his apprentices, whom he farmed out as spearsmen and footmen to the Daimios and Hatamotos, taking for himself the tithe of their earnings.

The endowment from the tiends or tithes, extorted by John Knox from the Lords of the congregations, who had seized on the church lands, was more meagre for the schoolmasters than for the clergy.

There are Records of tithing trains received, supplies stored, the list of injured dragons and men returning to active patrols.

But absence from a tithe meeting was potentially disastrous, as those attending would determine the tithing to be paid by those absent.

It was all she could do to make her legs move forward, to keep her fingers clasped around the sharp corners of the casket that held the tithing slips.

A young tithing, it had been granted the arid western end of a dismembered preman wilderness that once had been part of the Redrock reservation.

Even if they were somehow allowed to stay on at the tithing, they would never get permission for a child.

William Gibbs, who purchased the advowson of Otterbourne for a sum that Sir William applied to the endowment of Hursley, so as to compensate for the loss of the tithes of Otterbourne.