tithe

7 definitions found

tithe - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tithe \Tithe\, v. i.
     Tp pay tithes. [R.] --Tusser.
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  Tithe \Tithe\, a.
     Tenth. [Obs.]
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           Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand. --Shak.
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  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[imac]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.
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              The tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil.
                                                    --Neh. xiii.
                                                    5.
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     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.
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     2. Hence, a small part or proportion. --Bacon.
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     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.
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  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.
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           Ye tithe mint and rue.                   --Luke xi. 42.
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tithe - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tithe
      n 1: a levy of one tenth of something
      2: an offering of a tenth part of some personal income
      v 1: exact a tithe from; "The church was tithed"
      2: levy a tithe on (produce or a crop); "The wool was tithed"
      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 - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Tithe
  a tenth of the produce of the earth consecrated and set apart
  for special purposes. The dedication of a tenth to God was
  recognized as a duty before the time of Moses. Abraham paid
  tithes to Melchizedek (Gen. 14:20; Heb. 7:6); and Jacob vowed
  unto the Lord and said, "Of all that thou shalt give me I will
  surely give the tenth unto thee."
  
    The first Mosaic law on this subject is recorded in Lev.
  27:30-32. Subsequent legislation regulated the destination of
  the tithes (Num. 18:21-24, 26-28; Deut. 12:5, 6, 11, 17; 14:22,
  23). The paying of the tithes was an important part of the
  Jewish religious worship. In the days of Hezekiah one of the
  first results of the reformation of religion was the eagerness
  with which the people brought in their tithes (2 Chr. 31:5, 6).
  The neglect of this duty was sternly rebuked by the prophets
  (Amos 4:4; Mal. 3:8-10). It cannot be affirmed that the Old
  Testament law of tithes is binding on the Christian Church,
  nevertheless the principle of this law remains, and is
  incorporated in the gospel (1 Cor. 9:13, 14); and if, as is the
  case, the motive that ought to prompt to liberality in the cause
  of religion and of the service of God be greater now than in Old
  Testament times, then Christians outght to go beyond the ancient
  Hebrew in consecrating both themselves and their substance to
  God.
  
    Every Jew was required by the Levitical law to pay three
  tithes of his property (1) one tithe for the Levites; (2) one
  for the use of the temple and the great feasts; and (3) one for
  the poor of the land.

tithe - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "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