In dictionaries:
tithe barn
Storage building for agricultural tithes.
Saladin tithe
(historical) A tallage of 10% on revenues and movable properties, levied in England and to some extent France in 1188, in response to the capture of Jerusalem by Saladin in 1187.
tithe barns
Storage buildings for agricultural tithes.
tithe proctor
(historical) A collector of tithes.
tithe proctors
tithe payer
tithe commissioner
Official overseeing religious financial contributions.
tithe pig
Tithe War
a campaign of mainly nonviolent civil disobedience, punctuated by sporadic violent episodes, in Ireland between 1830 and 1836 in reaction to the enforcement of tithes on the Roman Catholic majority for the upkeep of the established state church, the Church of Ireland.
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