Definition of tithe

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Tithe (n.) 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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For :: For (n.) One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it..
Indecimable :: Indecimable (a.) Not decimable, or liable to be decimated; not liable to the payment of tithes..
Antitheist :: Antitheist (n.) A disbeliever in the existence of God.
Tenth :: Tenth (n.) The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe..
Commute :: Commute (v. t.) To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares..
Impropriation :: Impropriation (n.) The act of impropriating; as, the impropriation of property or tithes; also, that which is impropriated..
Rector :: Rector (n.) A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate. See the Note under Vicar..
Grange :: Grange (n.) A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited..
Hematotherma :: Hematotherma (n. pl.) The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya..
Decimate :: Decimate (v. t.) To take the tenth part of; to tithe.
Modus :: Modus (n.) A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi..
Antithetically :: Antithetically (adv.) By way antithesis.
Antithetic :: Antithetic (a.) Alt. of Antithetica.
Con :: Con (adv.) Against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; -- The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro..
Tither :: Tither (n.) One who collects tithes.
Untithed :: Untithed (a.) Not subjected tithes.
Parsonage :: Parsonage (n.) A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish..
Tithable :: Tithable (a.) Subject to the payment of tithes; as, tithable lands..
Tythe :: Tythe (n.) See Tithe.
Paronomasia :: Paronomasia (n.) A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning..
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