tithe
noun/taɪð/
/taɪð/
- (in the past) a tenth of the goods that somebody produced or the money that they earned, which was paid as a tax to support the Church
(过去)某人生产的商品或他们赚到的钱的十分之一,这些钱作为税收来支付以支持教会 - (in some Christian Churches today) a tenth of a person’s income that they give to the Church
(在今天的一些基督教会中)他们将一个人收入的十分之一捐给教会
Word OriginOld English tēotha (adjective in the ordinal sense ‘tenth’, used in a specialized sense as a noun), tēothian (verb).