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- one tenth of annual produce or earnings, formerly taken as a tax for the support of the Church and clergy什一税（旧时每年农产品或收入的十分之一被征为捐给教会或教士的税）。
1.1
- (in certain religious denominations) a tenth of an individual's income pledged to the Church（某些教派中按个人收入的十分之一许给教会的）捐款; 捐税。
1.2
- in sing. archaic a tenth of a specified thing〈古〉十分之一：
he hadn't said a tithe of the prayers he knew.
他还未念完自己所知祷文的1/10.
with obj.
1- pay or give as a tithe缴纳捐税：
he tithes 10 per cent of his income to the Church.
他把收入的1/10捐给教会。
1.1
- historical subject to a tax of one tenth of income or produce〈史〉缴纳什一税。
派生词
tithable
adjective词源
Old English tēotha （adjective in the ordinal sense 'tenth'， used in a specialized sense as a noun）， tēothian (verb).