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disme
/daɪm/
noun 2
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2DISME + NOUN
clergy
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noun
1
A dime minted in 1792.
2
A tenth; a tenth part; a tithe.
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.
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Since the first sword was drawn about this question, Ev'ry tithe soul 'mongst many thousand dismes, Hath been as dear as Helen.
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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.
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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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