tithed

Verb

tithe (third-person singular simple present tithes, present participle tithing, simple past and past participle tithed)

1. (transitive) To pay something as a tithe.
   • He teoðode gynd eall his cyne rice ðone teoðan del ealra his landa.854, "Grant by Adulf" in Cartularium Saxonicum, Book ii, 79
2. (transitive) To pay a tithe upon something.
   • ...ge tiogoðiað eowre mintan & eowerne dile & eowerne kymen.c. 897, King Alfred translating St Gregory, Pastoral Care, Chapter lvii
3. (intransitive) To pay a tithe; to pay a 10% tax
   • Þe prest þe meneȝeð rihtliche teðien.a. 1200, Trinity College Homilies, 215

   Synonyms:

   decimate

4. (figuratively, intransitive) To pay or offer as a levy in the manner of a tithe or religious tax.
   • These slaves are either the sonnes of Christians, tithed in their childhoods, Captives taken in the warres, or Renegadoes.1630, Anonymous translation of Giovanni Botero, anonymously translated as Relations of the Most Famous Kingdomes and Common-wealths, p. 510
5. To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly
   • gif we teoðiað þas gearlican dagas, þonne beoð þær six and ðritig teoðing-dagas.c. 1000, Ælfric, Homilies, Vol. I, 178
6. (transitive) To impose a tithe upon someone or something.
   • Leeuy, that took tithis, is tithid.1382, Wycliffite Bible, Hebrews 7:9

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