Obs. Forms: 1 tiʓþian, tyʓþian, 1–2 tíþian, 2 teiþian, 2–3 tiðen, tuþen (ü), 3 tythe. Pa. t. and pple. (north.) 4 tid(d, tyd(e. [OE. tiʓþian (:—*tigiþójan), f. tiʓð, TITHE sb.2] trans. To grant, concede, bestow.

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c. 893.  K. Ælfred, Oros., VI. xxxiv. § 3. Þa oferhoʓode he … þæt he him tiʓþade.

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a. 900.  trans. Bæda’s Hist., III. xv. [xxi.] (1890), 220. Ne hine mon on oðre wisan his bene tyʓþian wolde.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Hom., II. 108. Ic wæs nacod, nolde ʓe me wæda tiðian.

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c. 1160.  Hatton Gosp., Matt. xxi. 22. Eow beoð ʓe-teiþað [v.r. ʓetiðad].

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c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 135. God haueð herd þine bede, and tiðed te bene.

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c. 1200.  Ormin, 5365. Forr all þatt æfre ned uss iss All Godess Gast uss tiþeþþ.

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a. 1225.  St. Marher., 9. Nawt [ha] ne þohte þeron ꝥ hire nu were ituðet hire bone.

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a. 1240.  Lofsong, in Cott. Hom., 207. Leafdi … tuðe me mine bone to þine eadi sune.

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1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 2474. Ac o þing icholde bidde þe ȝif þou me woldest tiþe.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 10966 (Cott.). Drightin has þe tid [Gött. tidd] þi bon.

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c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, xxxiii. (George), 829. Þat god his askine had hyme tyde for þaim þat hyme worchyp dyde.

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  Hence † Tithing vbl. sb., thing granted, reward.

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c. 1275.  Fragm. Song, 7, in O. E. Misc., 101. Þat … he vs skere of þe tyþing þat sunfule schulle an-vnderfon.

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