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n.
A sum of money offered, as in church service; as, a missionary offering. Specif.: (Ch. of Eng.) Personal tithes payable according to custom, either at certain seasons as Christmas or Easter, or on certain occasions as marriages or christenings.
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A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish.
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A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi.
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The granting of tithes to laymen.
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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.
v. i.
Tp pay tithes.
a.
Of or pertaining to a vicar; as, vicarial tithes.
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One of an association of poor Roman catholics which arose in Ireland about 1760, ostensibly to resist the collection of tithes, the members of which were so called from the white shirts they wore in their nocturnal raids.
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Subject to the payment of tithes; as, tithable lands.
n.
A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits.
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A temporary mark or boundary, as a bough of a tree set up in marking out or dividing anything, as tithes, swaths to be mowed in common ground, etc.; -- called also wicker.
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A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.
n.
One who pays tithes.
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Issuing or derived from land; as, predial tithes.
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The act of levying or taking tithes; that which is taken as tithe; a tithe.
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A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.
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One who collects tithes.
v. t.
To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on.
a.
Not subjected tithes.
n.
That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from lands, tenements, or lay fees, tithes, and the like; -- chiefly used in the plural.
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