verb
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To give one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
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To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
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To compose the tenth part of something.
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To grant, concede.
noun
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A tithe or tenth in its various senses, :
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Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe-proctor).
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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.
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A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
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Decimation: the killing of every tenth person or (less often) the killing of every person except each tenth.
Examples of tithing in a Sentence
This is often done through tithing and church programs, but other charitable acts also demonstrate the same compassion and sharing.
Some townships, however, contained more than one tithing.
He found religious people tithing, giving a tenth, in a precise legalistic way, yet being fundamentally disobedient to God's word.
The previous Bishop of Chelmsford said that we needed to stop tipping God and start tithing!
I've never agreed with compulsory tithing but I'm open to persuasion.
Joshua 12.9 Back to top Jerimoth was an assistant of Conaniah; overseer of the tithing organized by Hezekiah, according to the Chronicler.
But many Christians have found tithing - ten percent - a helpful guideline.
The previous Bishop of Chelmsford said that we needed to stop tipping God and start tithing !
I 've never agreed with compulsory tithing but I 'm open to persuasion.
The tithing system by all local residents to their parish church was only abolished by Parliament in Victorian times.
The cleansing of externals and the tithing of garden-produce, He declares, have usurped the place of judgment and the love of God.
When a person who was accused of any crime was not forthcoming, inquiry was made whether he was in frankpledge; if he were not, and had no right of exemption, the township was amerced, but if he were in a tithing,-then it was upon the tithing that the amercement fell.
There are also indications that in the ancient kingdom of Mercia the tithing was originally a district and not a mere association of persons; but in Northumbria it is doubtful whether the system of frankpledge and tithing, either personal or territorial, was ever established.
If, as seems likely, the territorial tithing is older than the personal, each territorial hundred (q.v.) was probably divided into ten tithings.
This association of ten, or as it often was at a later date of twelve men, was also called a tithing, or decima, and in the north of England was known as tenmanne tale.
His financial system is closely tied to his Christian beliefs, which consider tithing a necessary expenditure.