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tithe
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta?ð/
- Rhymes: -a?ð
Etymology 1
From Middle English tithe, tythe, tethe, from Old English t?oþa, t?oða, teogoþa (in verb senses via Middle English tithen, tythen, tethen, from Old English t?oþian, teogoðian), from a proposed Proto-Germanic *tehunþô, *tehundô (“a tenth”), with its nasal consonant being lost according to the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Teeged (“tithe”), German Zehnt (“tithe”), Danish tiende (“tithe”), Icelandic tíund (“tithe”).
Noun
tithe (plural tithes)
- (archaic) A tenth.
- (historical) 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.
- Synonyms: decim, (Italian contexts) decima, decimate, decimation, tithing, titheling
- A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship (notably to the LDS church)
- A small part or proportion.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- tithe proctor (“levier or collector of a tithe”)
Adjective
tithe (not comparable)
- (archaic) Tenth.
- Euery tythe ?oule, 'mong?t many thou?and di?mes,
Verb
tithe (third-person singular simple present tithes, present participle tithing, simple past and past participle tithed)
- To give one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
- (transitive) To pay something as a tithe.
- 854, "Grant by Adulf" in Cartularium Saxonicum, Book ii, 79:
- He teoðode gynd eall his cyne rice ðone teoðan del ealra his landa.
- 1967 August 6, Observer, 4:
- A reply sent to a young member by the sect's letter-answering department was more precise: ‘A person working for wages is to tithe one-tenth of the total amount of his wages before income tax, national health, or other deductions are removed.’
- 854, "Grant by Adulf" in Cartularium Saxonicum, Book ii, 79:
- (transitive) To pay a tithe upon something.
- c. 897, King Alfred translating St Gregory, Pastoral Care, Chapter lvii:
- ...ge tiogoðiað eowre mintan & eowerne dile & eowerne kymen.
- 1562, F.J. Furnivall, ed., Child-marriages... in the Diocese of Chester A.D. 1561-6, p. 138:
- The maner of tiething pigge and gose is, yf one have vijth, to pay one.
- 1901, H.G. Dakyns translating Xenophon's Anabasis, Book V, Chapter iii, §9:
- Here with the sacred money [Xenophon] built an altar and a temple, and ever after, year by year, tithed the fruits of the land in their season and did sacrifice to the goddess.
- c. 897, King Alfred translating St Gregory, Pastoral Care, Chapter lvii:
- (intransitive) To pay a tithe; to pay a 10% tax
- Synonym: decimate
- a. 1200, Trinity College Homilies, 215:
- Þe prest þe mene?eð rihtliche teðien.
- 1942 September, Esquire, p. 174:
- They went to the Six Hickories church—tithed—and behaved themselves.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To pay or offer as a levy in the manner of a tithe or religious tax.
- 1630, Anonymous translation of Giovanni Botero, anonymously translated as Relations of the Most Famous Kingdomes and Common-wealths, p. 510:
- These slaves are either the sonnes of Christians, tithed in their childhoods, Captives taken in the warres, or Renegadoes.
- 1976 June 20, Billings Gazzette, C1:
- Former Southern officers prospered and tithed up to 50 percent for Civil War II, which never came.
- 1630, Anonymous translation of Giovanni Botero, anonymously translated as Relations of the Most Famous Kingdomes and Common-wealths, p. 510:
- (transitive) To pay something as a tithe.
- To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
- c. 1000,, Ælfric, Homilies, Vol. I, 178:
- gif we teoðiað þas gearlican dagas, þonne beoð þær six and ðritig teoðing-dagas.
- (transitive) To impose a tithe upon someone or something.
- 1382, Wycliffite Bible, Hebrews 7:9:
- Leeuy, that took tithis, is tithid.
- 1843, Frederick Marryat, Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet, in California, Sonora, & Western Texas, Vol. III, Ch. xi, p. 212:
- The cost... has been defrayed by tithing the whole Mormon Church. Those who reside at Nauvoo... have been obliged to work every tenth day in quarrying stone.
- 1382, Wycliffite Bible, Hebrews 7:9:
- (transitive) 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).
- 1387, Ranulf Higden, translated by John de Trevisa as Polychronicon, VII, 89:
- Þe folk of Crist was tiþed, þat is to seie, nyne slayn and þe tenþe i-kepte.
- 1670, John Milton, The History of Britain, vi, 256
- The multitude are tith'd, and every tenth only spar'd.
- 1387, Ranulf Higden, translated by John de Trevisa as Polychronicon, VII, 89:
- (transitive) To enforce or collect a tithe upon someone or something.
- Synonyms: decimate, tithe out
- 1591, The Troublesome Raigne of Iohn King of England, i, G:
- The Monkes the Priors and holy cloystred Nunnes,
Are all in health,...
Till I had tythde and tolde their holy hoords.
- The Monkes the Priors and holy cloystred Nunnes,
- a. 1642,, Henry Best, published in 1984 as The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, p. 26:
- When the parson or Procter commeth to tythe his wooll.
- (transitive, obsolete) To decimate: to kill every tenth person, usually as a military punishment.
- Synonym: decimate
- 1609, A. Marcellinus, translated by Philemon Holland as The Romane Historie, D, iii:
- The Thebane Legion... was first tithed, that is, every tenth man thereof was executed.
- 1610, William Camden, translated by Philemon Holland as A Chorographicall Description of... England, Scotland, and Ireland, i, 705:
- Keeping aliue... two principall persons, that they might be tithed with the soldiors... Every tenth man of the Normans they chose out by lot, to be executed.
- (intransitive) To enforce or collect a tithe.
- 1822, Thomas Love Peacock, Maid Marian, Ch. vi, p. 210:
- Those who tithe and toll upon them for their spiritual and temporal benefit.
- 1822, Thomas Love Peacock, Maid Marian, Ch. vi, p. 210:
- c. 1000,, Ælfric, Homilies, Vol. I, 178:
- (transitive, obsolete) To compose the tenth part of something.
- 1586, William Warner, Albions England: A Continued Historie, i, v, 15:
- Her sorrowes did not tith her ioy.
- 1586, William Warner, Albions England: A Continued Historie, i, v, 15:
Derived terms
- tithed
- tithe out
- tithing
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old English tíð (as an adjective, via tigþa and, as a verb, via tigþian), from unattested *tigð, from proposed Proto-Germanic *tigiþ? but unknown outside of English.
Noun
tithe (plural tithes)
- (obsolete) A boon (a grant or concession).
Adjective
tithe (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Receiving a concession or grant; successful in prayer or request.
Verb
tithe (third-person singular simple present tithes, present participle tithing, simple past and past participle tithed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To grant, concede.
Derived terms
- tithing
Further reading
- tithe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
Anagrams
- Hiett
Irish
Alternative forms
- tighthe (dated)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??h?/
- (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /?t?i?/
Noun
tithe m pl
- plural of teach (“house”)
- housing
- Synonym: tithíocht
Mutation
Further reading
- "tithe" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “tithe” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “tithe” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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