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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 273 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DIME (from the
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Lat. decima, a tenth, through the O. Fr. disme)  , the tenth
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part, the tithe paid as
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church dues, or as
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tribute to a temporal
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power . In this sense it is obsolete, but is found in Wycliffe's
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translation of the Bible—" He gave him dymes of alle thingis " (Gen. xiv . 2o) .

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