tithableadj.n.
/ˈtʌɪðəbl/, U.S. /ˈtaɪðəb(ə)l/ A. adj.
1. Of produce, livestock, property, etc.: subject to the payment of tithes.
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society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [adjective] > tithe > subject to
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [adjective] > relating to tithes > liable to pay or subject to tithes
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c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 56 Of heyȝ, corn, wode, fruyte, wolle, chese,..& of all manere thynges tythable.
1548 Act 2 & 3 Edward VI c. 13 §3 in Statutes of Realm (1963) IV. i. 56 Any beastes or other cattell tytheable.
1619 J. Sempill Sacrilege Sacredly Handled App. 40 By Tradition from their Fathers, all things growing out of the earth, and fit for mans meat, are Titheable.
1632 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 100 Mines are not titheable by the lawe because they doe not renovare.
1737 Gentleman's Mag. June 344 This Piece of Land is Tythe-free, That Piece is Tytheable.
1789 Bath Chron. 31 Dec. Sheep that are fatted on, or kept on after grass, were always accounted tytheable.
1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 77 The young of those, which are titheable, pay at the time of their being weaned.
1892 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 14 July 6/3 Other kinds of titheable produce have not lost their value in anything like the same degree that corn has.
1936 Times 10 Mar. 13/3 A considerable proportion of tithable land..is non-agricultural.
2001 Oxoniensia 65 455 The parish's interlocking field system and titheable units.
2. U.S. (originally colonial). Of a person: classified as economically productive for the purposes of assessing the liability of households for payment of ‘tithes’ or taxes (cf. tithe n.2 1b). Now historical.Such a system of classification was used in some southern colonies (later states), esp. Virginia.
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1629 in W. W. Hening Statutes at Large: Coll. Laws Virginia (1823) I. 143 All the Burgesses are..to send to the Governor a list of the tithable persons within their plantations.
1662 R. G. Virginia's Cure 21 The Act for paying 15 l. of Tobacco per annum, for every Tythable person.
1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia iv. v. 18 The Levies..are a certain Rate, or Proportion of Tobacco, charged upon the Head of every tithable Person.
1792 H. Toulmin Descr. Kentucky 7 The poor..are maintained by an assessment on the titheable persons in their parish.
1873 Gen. Statutes Kentucky c. 27. 269 At the time he assesses the taxable estate of any person who is tithable.
1975 E. S. Morgan Amer. Slavery, Amer. Freedom 400 Males over fifteen..remained tithable throughout the colonial period.
2003 P. C. Johnson Inner Lives 21 White women were tithable only if they were servants and actually worked in the fields.
B. n.† 2. Property which is subject to the payment of tithes. Obsolete. rare.
1. U.S. (originally colonial). A person who is classified as economically productive for the purposes of assessing the liability of households for payment of ‘tithes’ or taxes (cf. tithe n.2 1b). Chiefly in plural. Now historical.Such a system of classification was used in some southern colonies (later states), esp. Virginia.
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society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > church dues > tithe > one who is subject to
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1644 in W. W. Hening Statutes at Large: Coll. Laws Virginia (1823) I. 288 Northampton countie 346 tithables to pay 2076 pound of tobaccoe to Capt. Claiborne.
1680 in W. W. Hening Statutes at Large: Coll. Laws Virginia (1823) II. 488 It is declared..that such servants soe unsold ought not to be listed as tythables that yeare.
1738 T. Salmon Mod. Hist. XXXI. 97 Their Law makes Female Servants working in the Ground Titheables.
1775 A. Burnaby Trav. Middle Settlements N.-Amer. 12 There are a hundred and five thousand titheables, under which denomination are included all white males from sixteen to sixty.
1873 Gen. Statutes Kentucky c. 27. 270 The county levy shall not exceed three dollars on each tithable in any one year.
1893 Nation (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.
1956 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 22 325 A poll tax which was divided equitably among the taxpayers upon the basis of tithables.
2003 A. S. Parent Foul Means 277 From 1685 to 1699, the number of tithables per square mile almost doubled.
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1828 Examiner 30 Mar. 210/1 From various tenants and titheables he [sc. the Archbishop of Canterbury] receives some 25,000l. a-year.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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