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Definition of Tithe
1. Noun. A levy of one tenth of something.
2. Verb. Exact a tithe from. "The church was tithed"
3. Noun. An offering of a tenth part of some personal income.
4. Verb. Levy a tithe on (produce or a crop). "The wool was tithed"
5. Verb. Pay one tenth of; pay tithes on, especially to the church. "He tithed his income to the Church"
6. Verb. Pay a tenth of one's income, especially to the church. "Although she left the church officially, she still tithes"
Definition of Tithe
1. 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.
2. a. Tenth.
3. v. t. To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on.
4. v. i. Tp pay tithes.
Definition of Tithe
1. Noun. (archaic) A tenth. ¹
2. Noun. 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). ¹
3. Noun. A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship. ¹
4. Noun. A small part or proportion. ¹
5. Adjective. (archaic) Tenth. ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) To collect a tithe. ¹
7. Verb. (intransitive) To pay a tithe. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tithe
1. to pay a tithe (a small tax) [v TITHED, TITHING, TITHES]
Medical Definition of Tithe
1. 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) Tithes are called personal when accuring from labour, 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. 2. 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. Origin: OE. Tithe, tethe, properly an adj, tenth, AS. Teoa the tenth; akin to tien, tn, ten, ten, G. Zehnte, adj, tenth, n, a tithe, Icel. Tiund the tenth; tithe, Goth. Taihunda tenth. See Ten, and cf. Tenth, Teind. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tithe
Literary usage of Tithe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The tithe is either paid from the proceeds of some industry and other personal
... But from time immemorial, the real tithe appears generally in practise, ..."
2. A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815 by Spencer Walpole (1890)
"In some parishes the inconvenience to the tithe-owner and the tithe-payer of a
tax, collected in kind, had led to a voluntary arrangement for substituting a ..."
3. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1800)
"tithe decreed to be paid for ... in the county of Buckingham for the tithe of
head-lands, ... But the defendant wa» decreed to pay the tithe of ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"The first enactment of the Law in respect of tithe is the declaration that ...
That the tithe was to be paid in kind, or, if redeemed, with an addition of ..."
5. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1836)
"Lord Grey could never have stated that 'the entire arrear of tithe was but \lol.
6s. 4d.' after having just said that 292S/. 10s. lOd. had been recovered. ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1796)
"But if through unfavourable weather, or any- inevitable misfortune, the value of
the crop of the farm is not more than eighty pounds, the tithe-owner takes ..."
7. A Digest of the Law of Uses and Profits of Landby Stephen Martin Leake by Stephen Martin Leake (1888)
"tithe rent charge—Commutation Act. Valuation and apportionment of tithe. ...
Extraordinary tithe—Redemption Act. tithe rent charge as freehold estate—tithe ..."
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