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"A tenth."
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"(archaic) A tenth."
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"ref": "1705, William Forbes, A Treatise of Church-lands & Tithes, page 284",
"text": "For this is abundantly confuted by the Constitutions and Practice of these Christian States where Tithes have been variously settled, for maintenance of the Evangelical Priest-hood ; and other pious Uses, by legal and civil Tithes, which imply a Debitum Justitiæ.",
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"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."
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"(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."
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"word": "decim"
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"english": "Italian contexts",
"word": "decima"
},
{
"word": "decimate"
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"word": "decimation"
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"word": "tithing"
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"A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship (notably to the LDS church)."
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"sense": "tax paid to the Church",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shíyī fèngxiàn",
"sense": "tax paid to the Church",
"word": "十一奉献"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "tax paid to the Church",
"word": "tiende"
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"sense": "tax paid to the Church",
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"word": "dekonaĵo"
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"sense": "tax paid to the Church",
"word": "kümnis"
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"sense": "tax paid to the Church",
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"sense": "tax paid to the Church",
"word": "kirkollisvero"
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"sense": "tax paid to the Church",
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"sense": "tax paid to the Church",
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"word": "dismo"
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"word": "sincura"
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"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "tax paid to the Church",
"word": "δεκάτη"
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"sense": "tax paid to the Church",
"word": "tized"
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"word": "dézsma"
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"word": "tíund"
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"sense": "tax paid to the Church",
"word": "persepuluhan"
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"word": "deachú"
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"ref": "c. 1000, Ælfric, Homilies, Vol. I, 178",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to collect a tithe",
"word": "periä kymmenykset"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.