(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.
(n.) Hence, a small part or proportion.
(a.) Tenth.
(v. t.) To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on.
(v. i.) Tp pay tithes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson , who is currently positioned second in the polls behind Trump, was given respectful time to explain the medical consensus dismissing what many see as crackpot theories about vaccines and autism – but was only pressed briefly on his own arguably equally crackpot assertion that any form of progressive taxation amounts to socialism and the US should opt for a biblical tithe system instead.
(2) All five cell lines had small deposits of intramembraneous alkaline phosphatase in the plasma membrane and deposits associated tith the mitochondrial membranes and the endoplasmic reticulum that were not completely inhibited by phenylalanine or Levamisole.
(3) He dined with developers in private, at a huge property junket in Cannes called Mipim, and publicly announced his grand bargain with capital: they should be allowed to build as big as they wanted, as long as he could take a tithe of the proceeds to spend on such things as affordable housing.
(4) By the end of 2003, Christ Fellowship was the church where we regularly attended services,” he recalls in American Son, “and the church we tithed to as well.
(5) A request to his campaign to clarify whether he still tithes to the church was not returned at time of publication.
(6) But this is hardly what we think of as "social enterprise" – it looks more like a kind of feudalism, run on tithes and tributes and grudging sense of noblesse oblige .
(7) What's demolished: Harmondsworth Moor, Harmondsworth, and Longford - 950 homes, and the Tithe Barn and St Mary's Church in Harmondsworth, both sites of significant heritage value.
(8) This alone is an impressive list of publications and public awards, but is a mere tithe of Carpenter's extraordinary output, which also includes magnificently researched histories of the BBC Third programme, the postwar English satire movement, American writers in Paris between the wars, the Brideshead generation, and the 'angry young men', as well as an Oxford Companion to Children's Literature.
(9) But the Conservatives clearly don’t value all inheritances, for all their noise about the evils of inheritance tax, a tithe on extreme wealth that in practice afflicts barely anyone.
(10) He tithed, donating part of his salary to his local Pentecostal church, and fasted once a week.
(11) This is what coffee can be – what coffee is – that makes artisanal devotees travel, tithe and tip for what we could never, ever get at Starbucks .
(12) I'd like to see a movement of older people helping younger people and that might take all sorts of forms, like tithing part of your winter fuel allowance if you can afford to, or mentoring.
(13) Members are expected both to sell copies of the Nation’s paper, The Final Call, and submit tithes.
(14) On Wednesday airport authorities unveiled three proposals for a third runway, one of which would mean that St Mary's and a huge tithe barn next door would almost certainly be demolished along with hundreds of homes in Harmondsworth.
(15) Near Llantwit Major, the St Donat's Arts Centre ( stdonats.com ) – in an old tithe barn within St Donats Castle, formerly a home of William Randolph Hearst – puts on regular concerts, plays and exhibitions.
(16) Malcolm Muggeridge, in his book The Thirties, described the growth of the BBC in that decade (it had 4,233 employees by July 1939) thus: “The BBC came to pass silently, invisibly; like a coral reef, cells busily multiplying, until it was a vast structure … a society, with its king and lords and commoners, its laws and dossiers and revenue and easily suppressed insurrection …” Others think of it as like a religion: its foundations are faith and trust, and it will wither away when the congregations cease to believe in it (and pay their tithes to it).
Tither
Definition:
(n.) One who collects tithes.
(n.) One who pays tithes.
Example Sentences:
(1) He holds as Murray, dragged hither and tither across the baseline, whacks a desperate forehand miles past the baseline.