1936,Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, inA Further Range:
But really that gold was not half That a king might have hoped to compel— Not a half, not a third, not atithe.
(historical) The tenth part of the increase arising from the profits ofland andstock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses; a tax taking ten percent of land or stock profits, used for religious or charitable purposes.
1705, William Forbes,A Treatise of Church-lands & Tithes[1], page284:
For this is abundantly confuted by the Constitutions and Practice of these Christian States whereTithes have been variously settled, for maintenance of the Evangelical Priest-hood ; and other pious Uses, by legal and civilTithes, which imply aDebitum Justitiæ.
1917,The English Reports: Exchequer, page789:
That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner oftithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture again, pay 4d. the acre in the hands of such outdweller.
A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship (notably to theLDS church).
A small part or proportion.
1857, Thomas Hughes,Tom Brown's School Days:
Prayers and calling-over seemed twice as short as usual, and before they could get construes of atithe of the hard passages marked in the margin of their books, they were all seated round, and the Doctor was standing in the middle, talking in whispers to the master.
I scarcely know any thing that really interests me, and I would give a great deal not to be so quick-sighted as I am; it would be so pleasant to believe only atithe of the professions that are made me.
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854, "Grant by Adulf" inCartularium Saxonicum, Book ii, 79:
Heteoðode gynd eall his cyne rice ðoneteoðan del ealra his landa.
1967 August 6,Observer, section 4:
A reply sent to a young member by the sect's letter-answering department was more precise: ‘A person working for wages is totithe one-tenth of the total amount of his wages before income tax, national health, or other deductions are removed.’
1901,Xenophon, translated by H.G. Dakyns,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.
1843, Frederick Marryat, chapter XI, inNarrative of the Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet, in California, Sonora, & Western Texas, volume III, page212:
The cost... has been defrayed bytithing the whole Mormon Church. Those who reside at Nauvoo... have been obliged to work every tenth day in quarrying stone.
By decimation, and atithed death, / ... take thou the destin'd tenth
1609, A. Marcellinus, translated by Philemon Holland,The Romane Historie, D, iii:
TheThebane Legion... was firsttithed, that is, every tenth man thereof was executed.
1610, William Camden, translated by Philemon Holland,A Chorographicall Description of... England, Scotland, and Ireland,i, 705:
Keepingaliue... twoprincipall persons, that they might betithed with thesoldiors... Every tenth man of the Normans they chose out by lot, to be executed.
