disme
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Etymology edit
Middle French dixme, Old French disme (“tenth, tithe”), from Latin decimus (“tenth”). Doublet of dime.
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Noun edit
disme (plural dismes)
- (US, dated, 18th century) A dime minted in 1792.
- (obsolete) A tenth; a tenth part; a tithe.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- Since the first sword was drawn about this question, Ev'ry tithe soul 'mongst many thousand dismes, Hath been as dear as Helen.
- a. 1734, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani.
- The pope began to exercise his new rapines by a compliance with king Edward, in granting him two years’ disme from the clergy.
- 1886, Christopher Saint German, The Doctor and Student:
- I have heard say, that a writ of right of dismes is given by the statute of Westm. 2, and that speaketh only of dismes, and not of pensions.
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Middle English edit
Noun edit
disme
- a tenth; a tenth part; a tithe
- late 14th C., John Gower, Confessio Amantis
- And thus the wars they beginne, Whereof the holy church is taxed, That in the point, as it is axed, The disme go'th to the battaile.
- late 14th C., John Gower, Confessio Amantis
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Adjective edit
disme m (oblique and nominative feminine singular disme)
- tenth (ordinal adjective)