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T I T 
A medical term for a web-like structure: as, the cellular 
tissue. 
To TI'SSUE, ®. a. To interweave; to variegate.—The 
chariot was covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. 
Bacon. 
Mercy will sit between, 
Thron’d in coelestial sheen. 
With radiant feet the tissued clouds down steering. Milton. 
TISTED, East, a parish of England, in Southampton- 
shire ; 5 miles south-by-west of Alton. 
TISTED, West, a parish in the same county; Smiles 
south-east-by-east of New Alresford. 
TIT, s. [Tit signifies little in the Teutonic dialects. 
Thus Kilian, titje, Teut., any stnall bird.] A small horse. 
Generally in contempt. 
No storing of pasture with baggagely tit. 
With ragged, with aged, and evil at hit. 
Thou might’st have ta’en example 
From what thou read’st in story; 
Being as worthy to sit 
On an ambling tit. 
As thy predecessor Dory. 
A woman. In contempt. 
Am I one 
Selected out of all the husbands living, 
To be so ridden by a tit of tenpenca ? 
Ami so blind and bedrid ? Beaum. and FI. 
A titmouse or tomtit. [parus, Lat.] A bird. 
TITA, St., a small island in the North Pacific ocean. Lat. 
68. 51. N. long. 190. 14. E. 
TITAN, a small island in the south-east of France, in the 
Mediterranean, on the coast of Provence, the most eastern of 
the Hyeres group. 
TITANIUM, in Mineralogy, a metal originally discovered 
by Mr. Gregor of Cornwall, in the grains of a black mineral 
found in the bed of a rivulet in the valley of Menaian, in 
that county. See Mineralogy. 
TITBI'T, s. [properly tidbit; tid, tender, and bit.'] 
Nice bit; nice food.—John pampered esquire South with 
titbits till he grew wanton. Arbuthnot. 
TITCHFIELD, a river of England, in Southamptonshire, 
which falls into the English channel, east of Hamble. 
TITCHMARSH, a parish of England, in Northampton¬ 
shire; 1J mile east-north-east of Thrapston. Population 
589. 
TITCHWELL, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 5 miles 
west-by-north of Burnham Westgate. 
TFTHABLE, adj. Subject to the payment of tithes; that 
of which tithes may be taken.—The popish priest shall, on 
taking the oath of allegiance to his majesty, be entitled to a 
tenth part or tithe of all things tit liable in Ireland belonging 
to the papists, within their respective parishes. Swift. 
TITHBY, a parish of England, in Nottinghamshire; 2 
miles from Bingham. 
TITHE, s. [ceboa, Saxon, tenth.] The tenth part; the 
part assigned to the maintenance of the ministry. 
Sometimes comes she with a tithe pig’s tail, 
Tickling the parson as he lies asleep. 
Then dreams he of another benefice. Shakspcare. 
The tenth part of any thing.—I have searched man by 
man, boy by boy ; the tithe of a hair was never lost in my 
house before. Shakspearc. —Small part; small portion, 
unless it be misprinted for titles. —Offensive wars for religion 
are seldom to be approved, unless they have some mixture 
of civil tithes. Bacon. 
To TITHE, v. a. [ceobian, Saxon.] To tax; to levy 
the tenth part. 
By decimation and a tithed death, 
If thy revenges hunger for that food 
Which nature loaths, take thou the destin'd tenth. 
Shakspearc. 
T I T 
To TITHE, v. n. To pay tithe. 
For lambe, pig, and calf, and for other the like, 
Tithe so as thy cattle the lord do not strike. Tusscr. 
TITHENIDIA [riGrivibta, Gr.], a Spartan festival. For 
the ceremonies observed on this occasion, see Potter, 
Archceol. Grcec. lib. ii. cap. 20. tom. i. p. 432, seq. 
TITHES, Tythes, Tenths, Decimce, or Diximes, the 
tenth part of the increase, yearly arising and renewing from 
the profits of lands, the stock upon lands, and the personal 
industry of the inhabitants; allotted to the clergy for their 
maintenance. 
Tithes essentially differ from offerings, oblations, and ob- 
ventions, which are the customary payments for communi¬ 
cants at Easter, for marriages, christenings, churching of 
women, burials, and such like. See Oblations. 
Tithes, with regard to their several kinds or natures, are 
personal, predial, and mixt. 
Tithes, Personal, are those due or accruing from the 
profits of labour, art, trade, navigation, and industry of men, 
and of these, only the tenth part of the clear gains and pro¬ 
fits is due; after charges deducted. 
Tithes, Predial, are those which arise merely and 
immediately from the ground; as grain of all sorts, 
hay, wood, fruits, herbs; for a piece of land or ground, 
being called in Latin preedium (whether it be arable, 
meadow, or pasture), the fruit or produce of it is called 
predial. 
Tithes, Mixt, are those which arise not immediately from 
the ground, but from things immediately nourished by the 
ground, as from beasts, and other animals fed with the fruits 
of the earth; as colts, calves, lambs, chickens, milk, cheese, 
eggs- 
Tithes, with regard to their value, are divided into great 
and small. 
Tithes, Great, are those of corn, hay, and wood. 
Tithes Small, are the predial tithes of other kinds, to¬ 
gether with those that are called mixt and personal. It is 
said, that this division may be altered by custom, which will 
make wood a small tithe in the endowment of the vicar; by 
quantity, which will convert a small tithe into great; and 
by change of place, which makes the same things, e. g. 
hops in gardens, small tithes, in fields great tithes. But it 
has been admitted, that the quantity of land within any 
parish, that is cultivated for a particular produce, cannot 
change the nature of the tithe: and, according to this 
opinion, the law is now settled, that the tithes are to be 
denominated great or small, according to the nature and 
quality of them, aud not according to the quantity. 
Tithe was first legally enjoined by Moses, Lev. xxvii. 30. 
Numb, xviii, 21. Deut. xiv. 22. That legislator obliged the 
Israelites to the payment of several kinds of tithes. 
Tithes are not established by Jesus Christ, as they were 
under the old law by the ministry of Moses; the Christian 
priests, and the ministers of the altar of the new covenant, 
lived at first wholly upon the alms and oblations of the 
devout. 
In after-times, the laity gave a certain proportion of their 
revenues to the clergy, but voluntarily, and not out of any 
constraint or obligation : the first instances we have of this, 
are in the fourth and fifth centuries. 
This gift was called tithe, not that it was really a tenth 
part of their income, or near so much; but only in imitation 
of the tithes of the old law. 
In the following age, the prelates in their councils, in con¬ 
cert with the princes, made an express law to the purpose; and 
obliged the laity to give a full tenth part of their revenues, 
their fruits, &c., to the ecclesiastics. 
This the church enjoyed without disturbance for two or three 
centuries; but in the eighth century the laity got hold of part 
of these tithes, either by their own authority, or by grants 
and donations of the princes ; and appropriated them to their 
own uses. 
Some time afterwards they restored them, or applied them 
to the founding of monasteries or chapters, and the church 
consented 
Tusser. 
Denham. 
