Middle English Dictionary Entry
tīth(e num.
Entry Info
| Forms | tīth(e num. Also tigthe, tethe, teothe & (early) tieðe, tioðe, teoheðe, teouþe, (gen.) teoðan. |
| Etymology | OE tēoða, teiða, tēogeþa, tēða num. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. tenth(e num.
1.
(a) Ordinal number as adj.: tenth; (b) in combs.: ~ del (dol), one-tenth of a whole; also, a tithe; ~ part, one-tenth of a whole; (c) as noun: the tenth item in a series: the tenth precept, vice, bishopric, person, etc.; also, one-tenth of a whole.
Associated quotations
a
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)1/26 : Þa wæs þæs teoðan werodes ealdor swyðe fæger..gescapen, swa þæt he wæs gehaten Lucifer.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)11/2 : Þæt teoðe bebod is, 'Ne gewilne þu oðres mannes æhte.'
- a1150(c1125) Vsp.D.Hom.Elucid.(Vsp D.14)144/33 : Æt þan teoðe siðe, he com to heom æt þære sæ Tiberiadis.
- a1225(OE) Lamb.Hom.VA (Lamb 487)117 : [Þ]e teouðe unþeau is þet biscop beo ȝemeles.
- a1225(OE) Vsp.A.Hom.Init.Creat.(Vsp A.22)219 : Þat teonðe werod abreað and awende on yfele oðer al swa fele þe me mihte þat tioðe hape fulfellen.
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)76/205 : In þe teoþe ȝere..of þe kinedom Of willam þe rede king..he hadde..foure and þritti ȝer..i-beo in worlde.
- a1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)2367 : Ȝut com Ihesus þe teoþe tyme..to his disciples enleuene.
- ?c1335 Þe grace of god (Hrl 913)30 : For þe prude of Lucifer Þe teþe angle fille in to helle.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)6708 : Let þis gultelese men sette al arewe & telle out euere þe teþe mon.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)8600 : Þe teþe ȝer a sterre þat comete icluped is At alle halwen tid him ssewede.
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)97/329 : Þe teþe heste þe fo[r]-bet Wyl tou oþer manne þynge, For þat desturbet charyte.
- a1400(a1325) Glo.Chron.B (Trin-C R.4.26)873/523 : Of his endinge me schal her inne ywite, Vor in þe teoþe ȝere of his crouninge hit was.
b
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)106/9,13 : Hit wæs iboden..þæt ylc mon sceolde æfre embe twelf monðe þone teoðe dæl his weorldæltæ [read: weorldæhtæ] Gode syllen..tylie he þæt he hyre þone teoþe dæl his daȝe for Gode feste.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)106/18 : Six ant þrittiȝ daȝene þæs fæstenes..bið þæt þe teoþe dæl þare twelf monþe.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)895 : Habram gaf him ðe tigðe del Of alle is bigete.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)5346 : Þer nis no clerk..þat couþe half descrive þe reaulte..ne þe tiþedel of hire atir to telle þe riȝt.
- c1390(?a1325) Adam & E.(2) (Vrn)224/16 : God..bad Adam to ȝeuen him þe tiþe dole þat coome of þe eorþe.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)15.480 : Prestes..han her wille here, With-oute trauaille, þe tithe del þat trewemen biswynkyn.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)216 : Þer he tynt þe tyþe dool of his tour ryche.
- a1500 Tithe-Giving (Wor F.172)21 : God wil nat the tith part of hevene to be voide and idel.
c
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)137 : His michelnesse was unhiled on ten fold wise..þe tieðe is þat michele hereword þat ure helend him gaf.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)102/28 : Þe teoheðe is Contentio, þet is strif.
- c1230 Ancr.(Corp-C 402)26/7 : Þus ich biginne mine auez..tene & tene togederes, þe teoheðe eauer þus.
- a1300 Hundreds Engl.(Jes-O 29)146/25 : Þe Nyeþe [bishopric] on Baþun..þe teouþe on wirecestre, þe eollefte on hereforde.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)619 : Þe lawes þat ichulle nouþe telle, he grauntede..Þe teoþe was 'ȝif ani clerk ase felun were i-take, [etc.].'
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)6710,6713 : Þo þe teþe was aliue..Him þoȝte þer were to monye aliue..Alle þat were aliue..arewe..he drou & tolde of hom þe teþe out & þe nine slou.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)5429 : Erl Does sone..þe ix was..Grifles so was tiþe.
- ?a1475 Com.Proph.M.(PennSt-U PS V-3)225 : Merlyn seid..that..þe tithe of Normandie schal hurt him soore..And he said sooth, For william..came into Englond but with euery xte man of Normandie to a venge him.
- a1500 Tithe-Giving (Wor F.172)21 : He, the commentor of his cursid fraude and guyle, was the tithe in the nombre of aungels in hevene.