tithe

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noun

The definition of a tithe is a tax, a small collection, or a tenth of your income given to a church.
1. An example of a tithe is an offering given at a service.
2. An example of a tithe is a promised pledge given to a Methodist church.

verb

To tithe means to pay an offering or a tax.
An example of tithe is to give a portion of your earnings each month to your church.

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tithe

one tenth of the annual produce of one's land or of one's annual income, paid as a tax or contribution to support a church or its clergy
1. a tenth part
2. any small part
any tax or levy

Origin of tithe

Middle English from Old English teothe, contr. from teogotha, a tenth

transitive verb

tithed, tith′ing

to pay a tithe of (one's produce, income, etc.)
to levy a tithe on or collect a tithe from

Origin of tithe

ME tithen < OE teothian < the n.

to pay a tithe

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tithe

noun

a. A portion of one's annual income contributed voluntarily or due as a tax, especially a contribution of one tenth of one's income for the support of the clergy or church.
b. The institution or obligation of paying tithes.
A tax or assessment of one tenth.
a. A tenth part.
b. A very small part.

verb

tithed, tith·ing, tithes

verb

transitive

To pay (a portion of one's income) as a tithe.
To levy a tithe on.

verb

intransitive

To pay a tithe.

Origin of tithe

Middle English tithe consisting of a tenth part of one's goods or income from Old English tēotha tenth, tithe ; see dek&mlowring; in Indo-European roots.

Related Forms:

tith′a·ble
adjective

tith′er
noun

Word History: A tithe is a tenth, etymologically speaking; in fact, tithe is the old ordinal numeral in English. Sound changes in the prehistory of English are responsible for its looking so different from the word ten. Tithe goes back to a prehistoric West Germanic form *tehuntha-, formed from the cardinal numeral *tehun, “ten,” and the same ordinal suffix that survives in Modern English as -th. The n disappeared before the th in the West Germanic dialect area that gave rise to English, and eventually yielded the Old English form tēothe, “tenth,” still not too different from the cardinal numeral tīen. But over time, as the former became tithe and the latter ten, and as tithe developed the specialized meaning “a tenth part paid as a tax,” it grew harder to perceive a relationship between the two. The result was that speakers of English created a new word for the ordinal, tenth, built with the cardinal numeral ten on the pattern of the other regularly formed ordinal numerals like sixth or seventh.

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Noun

(plural tithes)

(archaic) A tenth.
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).
A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship.
A small part or proportion.

Adjective

(not comparable)

(archaic) Tenth.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present tithes, present participle tithing, simple past and past participle tithed)

To collect a tithe.
(intransitive) To pay a tithe.
To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth.

Origin

Old English tÄ“oÃ¾a (Old English underwent the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law, which resulted in the elimination of the nasal consonant from Germanic *tehunÃ¾-). Compare Icelandic tÃund.

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