2. Verb. (third-person singular of tithe) ¹
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Definition of Tithes
1. tithe [v] - See also: tithe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tithes
Literary usage of Tithes
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)
"Luther generally approved the payment of tithes and, in view of their practical
... In Luther's opinion, tithes were to be paid to the temporal sovereignty; ..."
2. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"The business of the parsons being only with tithes, one naturally, at first sight,
wonders why they should care so much about rents. ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"This put an effectual stop to all the arbitrary consecrations of tithes; except
some footsteps which still continue in those portions of tithes, ..."
4. Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1885)
"The business of the parsons being only with tithes, one naturally, at first sight,
wonders why they should care so much about rents. ..."
5. English Farming Past & Present by Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1917)
"The following variations in the methods of collecting tithes are mentioned ...
Half the parishes are Vicarages, and the great tithes are in the hands of lay ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1831)
"This opposed to the known history of the tithes! when this very writer, ...
Notwithstanding this conclusion, he proceeds to rail against the tithes as " an ..."
7. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1860)
"But where the right does not come into question, but only the fact whether or no
the tithes allowed to be due are really subtracted or withdrawn, ..."
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