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tithable, a. (n.)|ˈtaɪðəb(ə)l|
Also 5–8 tythable, 5–9 titheable, 6–8 tytheable.
[f. tithe v.2 + -able.]
1. Of produce: Subject to the payment of tithes.
c1440Jacob's Well 56 Of heyȝ, corn, wode, fruyte, wolle, chese,..& of all manere thynges tythable. 1548Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI, c. 13 §3 Any beastis or other cattell tytheable. 1619J. Sempill Sacrilege Handled App. 39 By Tradition from their Fathers, all things growing out of the earth, and fit for mans meat, are Titheable. 1632Star Chamb. Cases (Camden) 100 Mines are not titheable by the lawe because they doe not renovare. 1737Gentl. Mag. VII. 344 This Piece of Land is Tythe-free, That Piece is Tytheable. 1834Brit. Husb. I. 77 The young of those, which are titheable, pay at the time of their being weaned.
2. Liable to pay tithes. rare.
1722R. Beverley Virginia iv. v. §18. 218 The Levies..are a certain Rate or Proportion of Tobacco charged upon the Head of every tithable Person... They call all Negroes above sixteen Years of age tithable, be they male or female; and all white Men of the same Age. But Children and white Women are exempted from all Manner of Duties.
B. absol. as n. One who or that which is subject to payment of tithes.
1680Virginia Stat. (1823) II. 488 It is declared..that such servants soe unsold ought not to be listed as tythables that yeare. 1775A. Burnaby Trav. 12 There are a hundred and five thousand titheables, under which denomination are included all white males from sixteen to sixty. 1828Examiner 210/1 From various tenants and titheables he [the archbishop] receives some 25,000l. a-year. 1893Nation (N.Y.) 27 Apr. 309/2 The population of a Virginian county..was probably considerably more than three times as great as its number of tithables. |