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A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi. Blackstone. They, from time immemorial, had paid a modus, or composition. Landor. Modus operandi ( Etym: [L.], manner of operating.

voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.

ly; that which happens casually; an incidental advantage; an occasional offering. [Obs.] "Tithes and other obventions." Spenser. Legacies bequeathed by the deaths of princes and great persons, and other casualities and obventions. Fuller.

offered, as in church service; as, a missionary offering. Specif.: (Ch. of Eng.) Personal tithes payable according to custom, either at certain seasons as Christmas or Easter, or on certain occasions as marriages or christenings. [None] to the offering before her should go. Chaucer. Burnt offering, Drink offering, etc.…

Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism. The antithetic or parallelistic form of Hebrew poetry is entirely lost. Milman.

nt senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning. Dryden.

A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish.

A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes. [Eng.] Mozley & W.

A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits. Blackstone.

sted for any month or year. -- Perpetual curacy (Ch. of Eng.), a curacy in which all the tithes are appropriated, and no vicarage is endowed. Blackstone. -- Perpetual motion. See under Motion. -- Perpetual screw. See Endless screw, under Screw.

, the rights of a personal security, personal liberty, and private property. -- Personal tithes. See under Tithe. -- Personal verb (Gram.), a verb which is modified or inflected to correspond with the three persons.

frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things. The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. Milton.

Issuing or derived from land; as, predial tithes.

used sometimes in a disparaging sense. A style . . . without sententious pretension or antithetical prettiness. Jeffrey.

Prosecution. [Obs.] That pursuit for tithes ought, and of ancient time did pertain to the spiritual court. Fuller. Curve of pursuit (Geom.), a curve described by a point which is at each instant moving towards a second point, which is itself moving according to some specified law.

vicar, with consent of the ordinary, that such lands shall be discharged from payment of tithes, in consequence of other land or recompense given to the parson in lieu and satisfaction thereof. Blackstone. -- Real estate or property, lands, tenements, and hereditaments; freehold interests in landed property; property…

ovince of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.

ghtingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native of India.

To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. [Obs.] W. Stith.

A tithing, or division, in the Isle of Man, in which there is a coroner, or chief constable. The island is divided into six sheadings.