tythe
Americannoun
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I believe tythe is right, and that the expression is proverbial, in which tithe is taken, by an easy metonymy, for harvest.
From Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Johnson, Samuel
She therefore pays her tythe of mint and cummin, and thanks her God that she is not as other women are.
From Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Wollstonecraft, Mary
I suppose the tythe purchase will be made in my name.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle
I am ashamed to take tythe thus of your press.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary
The person of a parish, or a gentleman of small fortune who lives upon his estate, may sometimes, perhaps find some advantage in receiving, the one his tythe, and the other his rent, in kind.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Garnier, Germain
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