† retithev.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To tithe (tithe v.2 3b) (a group of people) for a second or further time.
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the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [verb (transitive)] > one in ten > again
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1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 212/2 (margin) The miserable wretchednes of Godwyn agaynst the Normands. The Normandes tythed. And yet the tenthes retithed again.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 295 [297] Hee let the tenth man goe by: and even these tenth men thus reserved hee went over againe, and most cruelly retithed them.
1722 E. Gibson tr. W. Camden Brit. (ed. 2) I. 181 He dismissed every tenth man; and afterwards, with the extreamest cruelty..retith'd those tenths which he had sav'd.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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