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Tithe

//taɪð// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Tenth. archaic, not-comparable

    "Euery tythe ſoule, 'mongſt many thouſand diſmes,"

Noun
  1. 1
    A tenth. archaic

    "But really that gold was not half That a king might have hoped to compel— Not a half, not a third, not a tithe."

  2. 2
    an offering of a tenth part of some personal income wordnet
  3. 3
    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; a tax taking ten percent of land or stock profits, used for religious or charitable purposes. historical

    "For this is abundantly confuted by the Constitutions and Practice of these Christian States where Tithes have been variously settled, for maintenance of the Evangelical Priest-hood ; and other pious Uses, by legal and civil Tithes, which imply a Debitum Justitiæ."

  4. 4
    a levy of one tenth of something wordnet
  5. 5
    A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship (notably to the LDS church).
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  1. 6
    A small part or proportion.

    "Prayers and calling-over seemed twice as short as usual, and before they could get construes of a tithe of the hard passages marked in the margin of their books, they were all seated round, and the Doctor was standing in the middle, talking in whispers to the master."

Verb
  1. 1
    To give one-tenth or a tithe of something; To pay something as a tithe. transitive

    "He teoðode gynd eall his cyne rice ðone teoðan del ealra his landa."

  2. 2
    pay a tenth of one's income; pay one tenth of, especially to the church wordnet
  3. 3
    To give one-tenth or a tithe of something; To pay a tithe upon something. transitive

    "...ge tiogoðiað eowre mintan & eowerne dile & eowerne kymen."

  4. 4
    levy a tithe on (produce or a crop) wordnet
  5. 5
    To give one-tenth or a tithe of something; To pay a tithe; to pay a 10% tax intransitive

    "Þe prest þe meneȝeð rihtliche teðien."

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  1. 6
    exact a tithe from wordnet
  2. 7
    To give one-tenth or a tithe of something; To pay or offer as a levy in the manner of a tithe or religious tax. figuratively, intransitive

    "These slaves are either the sonnes of Christians, tithed in their childhoods, Captives taken in the warres, or Renegadoes."

  3. 8
    To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly

    "gif we teoðiað þas gearlican dagas, þonne beoð þær six and ðritig teoðing-dagas."

  4. 9
    To take one-tenth or a tithe of something; To impose a tithe upon someone or something. transitive

    "Leeuy, that took tithis, is tithid."

  5. 10
    To take one-tenth or a tithe of something; To spare only every tenth person, killing the rest (usually in relation to the sacking of the episcopal seat at Canterbury by the pagan Danes in 1011). transitive

    "Þe folk of Crist was tiþed, þat is to seie, nyne slayn and þe tenþe i-kepte."

  6. 11
    To take one-tenth or a tithe of something; To enforce or collect a tithe upon someone or something. transitive

    "The Monkes the Priors and holy cloystred Nunnes, Are all in health,..."

  7. 12
    To take one-tenth or a tithe of something; To decimate: to kill every tenth person, usually as a military punishment. obsolete, transitive

    "By decimation, and a tithed death, / ... take thou the destin'd tenth"

  8. 13
    To take one-tenth or a tithe of something; To enforce or collect a tithe. intransitive

    "Those who tithe and toll upon them for their spiritual and temporal benefit."

  9. 14
    To compose the tenth part of something. obsolete, transitive

    "Her sorrowes did not tith her ioy."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English tithe, tythe, tethe, from Old English tēoþa, tēoða, teogoþa (in verb senses via Middle English tithen, tythen, tethen, from Old English tēoþian, teogoþian), from a proposed Proto-Germanic *tehunþô, *tehundô (“a tenth”), with its nasal consonant being lost according to the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. Cognate with West Frisian tsiende (“tithe”), Saterland Frisian Teeged (“tithe”), Dutch tiende, German Low German Teihnte, German Zehnt (“tithe”), Danish tiende (“tithe”), Icelandic tíund (“tithe”), Dutch tiende (“tithe”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English tithe, tythe, tethe, from Old English tēoþa, tēoða, teogoþa (in verb senses via Middle English tithen, tythen, tethen, from Old English tēoþian, teogoþian), from a proposed Proto-Germanic *tehunþô, *tehundô (“a tenth”), with its nasal consonant being lost according to the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. Cognate with West Frisian tsiende (“tithe”), Saterland Frisian Teeged (“tithe”), Dutch tiende, German Low German Teihnte, German Zehnt (“tithe”), Danish tiende (“tithe”), Icelandic tíund (“tithe”), Dutch tiende (“tithe”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English tithe, tythe, tethe, from Old English tēoþa, tēoða, teogoþa (in verb senses via Middle English tithen, tythen, tethen, from Old English tēoþian, teogoþian), from a proposed Proto-Germanic *tehunþô, *tehundô (“a tenth”), with its nasal consonant being lost according to the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. Cognate with West Frisian tsiende (“tithe”), Saterland Frisian Teeged (“tithe”), Dutch tiende, German Low German Teihnte, German Zehnt (“tithe”), Danish tiende (“tithe”), Icelandic tíund (“tithe”), Dutch tiende (“tithe”).

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