Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to tithe
Participle: tithed
Gerund: tithing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | tithe |
| you | tithe |
| he;she;it | tithes |
| we | tithe |
| you | tithe |
| they | tithe |
Perfect
| I | have tithed |
| you | have tithed |
| he;she;it | has tithed |
| we | have tithed |
| you | have tithed |
| they | have tithed |
Past
| I | tithed |
| you | tithed |
| he;she;it | tithed |
| we | tithed |
| you | tithed |
| they | tithed |
Pluperfect
| I | had tithed |
| you | had tithed |
| he;she;it | had tithed |
| we | had tithed |
| you | had tithed |
| they | had tithed |
Future
| I | will tithe |
| you | will tithe |
| he;she;it | will tithe |
| we | will tithe |
| you | will tithe |
| they | will tithe |
Future Perfect
| I | will have tithed |
| you | will have tithed |
| he;she;it | will have tithed |
| we | will have tithed |
| you | will have tithed |
| they | will have tithed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | tithe |
| you | tithe |
| he;she;it | tithe |
| we | tithe |
| you | tithe |
| they | tithe |
Perfect
| I | have tithed |
| you | have tithed |
| he;she;it | have tithed |
| we | have tithed |
| you | have tithed |
| they | have tithed |
Imperfect
| I | tithed |
| you | tithed |
| he;she;it | tithed |
| we | tithed |
| you | tithed |
| they | tithed |
Pluperfect
| I | had tithed |
| you | had tithed |
| he;she;it | had tithed |
| we | had tithed |
| you | had tithed |
| they | had tithed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would tithe |
| you | would tithe |
| he;she;it | would tithe |
| we | would tithe |
| you | would tithe |
| they | would tithe |
Perfect
| I | would have tithed |
| you | would have tithed |
| he;she;it | would have tithed |
| we | would have tithed |
| you | would have tithed |
| they | would have tithed |
Imperative
| you | tithe |
| we | Let's tithe |
| you | tithe |
Verbs conjugated like 'tithe'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'tithe'
ithe,
kithe,
lithe,
sithe,
title,
titre,
tythe,
withe,
bathe,
bite,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to pay a 10% tax
- decimate
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English tithe, tythe, tethe, from Old English tēoþa, tēoða, teogoþa (in verb senses via Middle English tithen, tythen, tethen, from Old English tēoþian, teogoþian), from a proposed Proto-Germanic *tehunþô, *tehundô (“a tenth”), with its nasal consonant being lost according to the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. Cognate with West Frisian tsiende (“tithe”), Saterland Frisian Teeged (“tithe”), Dutch tiende, German Low German Teihnte, German Zehnt (“tithe”), Danish tiende (“tithe”), Icelandic tíund (“tithe”), Dutch tiende (“tithe”). Doublet of tenth. See: Middle English '
tithen', Danish '
tiende'.
Verbs referencing "tithe"
English
tenth.
Sample Sentences
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He teoðode gynd eall his cyne rice ðone teoðan del ealra his landa. [854, "Grant by Adulf" in Cartularium Saxonicum, Book ii, 79]
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A reply sent to a young member by the sect's letter-answering department was more precise: ‘A person working for wages is to tithe one-tenth of the total amount of his wages before income tax, national health, or other deductions are removed.’ [1967 August 6, Observer, section 4:]
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...ge tiogoðiað eowre mintan & eowerne dile & eowerne kymen. [c. 897, King Alfred translating St Gregory, Pastoral Care, Chapter lvii]
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The maner of tiething pigge and gose is, yf one have vijᵗʰ, to pay one. [1562, F.J. Furnivall, editor, Child-marriages... in the Diocese of Chester A.D. 1561-6, page 138:]
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Here with the sacred money [Xenophon] built an altar and a temple, and ever after, year by year, tithed the fruits of the land in their season and did sacrifice to the goddess. [1901, Xenophon, translated by H.G. Dakyns, Anabasis, Book V, Chapter iii, §9:]
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Þe prest þe meneȝeð rihtliche teðien. [a. 1200, Trinity College Homilies, 215]
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They went to the Six Hickories church—tithed—and behaved themselves. [1942 September, Esquire, page 174:]
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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]
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Former Southern officers prospered and tithed up to 50 percent for Civil War II, which never came. [1976 June 20, Billings Gazette, C1:]
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gif we teoðiað þas gearlican dagas, þonne beoð þær six and ðritig teoðing-dagas. [c. 1000, Ælfric, Homilies, Vol. I, 178:]
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Leeuy, that took tithis, is tithid. [1382, Wycliffite Bible, Hebrews 7:9]
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The cost... has been defrayed by tithing the whole Mormon Church. Those who reside at Nauvoo... have been obliged to work every tenth day in quarrying stone. [1843, Frederick Marryat, chapter XI, in Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet, in California, Sonora, & Western Texas, volume III, page 212:]
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Þe folk of Crist was tiþed, þat is to seie, nyne slayn and þe tenþe i-kepte. [1387, Ranulf Higden, translated by John de Trevisa, Polychronicon, VII, 89:]
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The multitude are tith'd, and every tenth only spar'd. [1670, John Milton, The History of Britain, vi, 256:]
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The Monkes the Priors and holy cloystred Nunnes,
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Are all in health,... [1591, The Troublesome Raigne of Iohn King of England, i, G]
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When the parson or Procter commeth to tythe his wooll. [a. 1642, Henry Best, The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, published 1984, page 26:]
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By decimation, and a tithed death, / ... take thou the destin'd tenth [1606, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens:]
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The Thebane Legion... was first tithed, that is, every tenth man thereof was executed. [1609, A. Marcellinus, translated by Philemon Holland, The Romane Historie, D, iii:]
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Keeping aliue... two principall persons, that they might be tithed with the soldiors... Every tenth man of the Normans they chose out by lot, to be executed. [1610, William Camden, translated by Philemon Holland, A Chorographicall Description of... England, Scotland, and Ireland, i, 705:]
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Those who tithe and toll upon them for their spiritual and temporal benefit. [1822, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter VI, in Maid Marian, page 210:]
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Her sorrowes did not tith her ioy. [1586, William Warner, Albions England: A Continued Historie, i, v, 15:]