Forms: 5 quyndesyn, quindecym(e, 5 -dezim, 6 quyndezim, -dsime, 6–7 quindecim, -disme, 7 -desme, -dizm(e. [Alteration of AF. quinzisme QUINZIÈME, after L. quindecim and Eng. disme DIME.]
† 1. A tax or duty of a fifteenth part. Obs.
a. 1467. Gregory, Chron. (Camden), 142. In the whyche Parlyment was grauntyd a quyndesyn and a dyme to the kynge.
c. 1470. Harding, Chron., CL. iii. For whiche ye Church a disme Hym graunted, so dyd the Commons a quindecyme.
1512. Act 4 Hen. VIII., c. 8. The two quyndezims graunted … in this present Parliament.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xxi. (1623), 1033. A taxe or quindecim, granted vnto you by Act of Parliament.
1647. N. Bacon, Disc. Govt. Eng., I. lxvi. (1739), 140. Some extraordinary exaction … Quindizms, Benevolences, or other such like.
2. Eccl. Antiq. = QUINDENE.
1472–3. Rolls Parlt., VI. 44/2. The other Fyne was levied in the Quindezim of Seint John Baptist.
1511–2. Act 3 Hen. VIII., c. 19. Preamble, The monday nexte after the quindecim of Seynt John Baptyst.
1629. in Picton, L’pool Munic. Rec. (1883), I. 126. Die Mercurii next after Quindecim Pasche next.
1802–12. Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), IV. 296. Octaves, quindecims, and morrows of All Souls.
