rare. [f. TENTH sb.] trans. To decimate, to tithe.
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, I. ii. 9. As did Iulius Cæsar … Dezimare or tenth the ninth Legion by sound of the horne.
1647. Trapp, Comm. Ep., Heb. vii. 6, 371. Received tithes of Abraham. Gr. Tithed or tenthed Abraham.
1878. Hooker & Ball, Marocco, App. I. 470. At last came the holiday l’ashora, or the day of the Sultan’s tenthing.
