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n.
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.
n.
A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits.
n.
The act of levying or taking tithes; that which is taken as tithe; a tithe.
n.
One who collects tithes.
a.
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.
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.
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.
a.
Subject to the payment of tithes; as, tithable lands.
v. t.
To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on.
n.
One who pays tithes.
n.
A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.
n.
A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish.
n.
A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi.
n.
The granting of tithes to laymen.
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.
a.
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.
a.
Of or pertaining to a vicar; as, vicarial tithes.
a.
Not subjected tithes.
v. i.
Tp pay tithes.
a.
Issuing or derived from land; as, predial tithes.
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