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TITHING
Etymology 1
Noun
tithing (plural tithings)
A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly)
The tithe given as an offering to the church.
The payment of tithes.
The collection of tithes.
(dialectal) Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe-proctor).
(historical, law) A body of households (originally a tenth of a hundred or ten households) bound by frankpledge to collective responsibility and punishment for each other's behavior.
(historical, law) A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
(obsolete) Decimation: the killing of every tenth person or (less often) the killing of every person except each tenth.
Synonyms
• (tenth): See tenth and tithe
• (oath-bound division of the hundred): decenary, decime, frankpledge, fribourg
Verb
tithing
present participle of tithe
Etymology 2
Noun
tithing (plural tithings)
(obsolete) A reward, grant, or concession.
Anagrams
• hitting
Source: Wiktionary
Tith"ing, n. Etym: [AS. teĆ³.]
1. The act of levying or taking tithes; that which is taken as tithe; a tithe. To take tithing of their blood and sweat. Motley.
2. (O. Eng. Law)
Definition: A number or company of ten householders who, dwelling near each other, were sureties or frankpledges to the king for the good behavior of each other; a decennary. Blackstone.
TITHE
Tithe, n. Etym: [OE. tithe, tethe, properly an adj., tenth, AS. teĆ³ the tenth; akin to tiĆ©n, t, ten, ten, G. zehnte, adj., tenth, n., a tithe, Icel. tiund the tenth; tithe, Goth. taĆhunda 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. The tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil. Neh. xiii. 5.
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.
2. Hence, a small part or proportion. Bacon. 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.
Tithe, a.
Definition: Tenth. [Obs.] Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand. Shak.
Tithe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tithed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tithing.] Etym: [As. teĆ³.]
Definition: To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on. Ye tithe mint and rue. Luke xi. 42.
Tithe, v. i.
Definition: Tp pay tithes. [R.] Tusser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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