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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 273 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DIME (from the Lat. decima, a tenth, through the O. Fr. disme)

DIME (from the See also:
LAT
Lat. decima, a tenth, through the O. Fr. disme) , the tenth See also:

PART

part, the tithe paid as See also:

church dues, or as See also:

TRIBUTE (Lat. tributurn, a stated payment, contribution)

tribute to a temporal See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power . In this sense it is obsolete, but is found in Wycliffe's See also:

TRANSLATION

translation of the See also:

Bible—" He gave him dymes of alle thingis " (Gen. xiv . 2o) .

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