tithe /taɪð/verb 12noun 4adjective 1forms 3 verb12 •To give one-tenth or a tithe of something •To pay something as a tithe. •To pay a tithe upon something. •To pay a tithe; to pay a 10% tax •(figurative) 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 •To take one-tenth or a tithe of something. •To impose a tithe upon someone or something. •To enforce or collect a tithe upon someone or something.The Monkes the Priors and holy cloystred Nunnes, Are all in health,... — 1591 •To enforce or collect a tithe.Those who tithe and toll upon them for their spiritual and temporal benefit. — 1822 •To spare only every tenth person, killing the rest (usually in relation to the sacking of the episcopal seat at Canterbury by the pagan Danes in 1011). •(no longer used) To decimate: to kill every tenth person, usually as a military punishment.The Thebane Legion... was first tithed, that is, every tenth man thereof was executed. — 1609 •(no longer used) To compose the tenth part of something.Her sorrowes did not tith her ioy. — 1586 noun4 •A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship (notably to the LDS church). •(historical) The tenth part 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; a tax taking ten percent of land or stock profits, used for religious or charitable purposes. •A small part or proportion. •(no longer used) A tenth.But really that gold was not half That a king might have hoped to compel— Not a half, not a third, not a tithe. — 1936 adjective1 •(no longer used) Tenth. formstithed · tithing · tithes