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TITHE, noun The tenth part of any thing; but appropriately, the tenth part of the increase annually arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support. Tithes are personal, predial, or mixed; personal, when accruing from labor, art, trade and navigation; predial, when issuing from the earth, as hay, wood and fruit; and mixed, when accruing from beasts, which are fed from the ground.
TITHE, verb transitive To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth.
When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase. Deuteronomy 26:12.
Ye tithe mint and rue. Luke 11:42.
TITHE, verb intransitive To pay tithes.
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