tithe
tithe is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 3.Tenth. [Obs.] Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand. Shak.
- 4.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.
- 5.Tp pay tithes. [R.] Tusser.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- alone
- alter
- among
- centesimal
- certain
- decimal
- decimate
- decimation
- deficit
- division
- duodecimal
- few
- fifth
- five
- hundredth
- inter
- large
- majority
- millesimal
- more
- multitude
- non
- not
- number
- one
- other
- pentavalent
- plural
- plurality
- quinquarticular
- quinquefid
- quinquepartite
- several
- sexagenary
- sexagesimal
- some
- tenth
- than
- three
- twelfth
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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