disme
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
/daɪm/
Definition of disme
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (US, dated, obsolete)A dime minted in 1792.
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noun
- (US, dated, obsolete)A dime minted in 1792.
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(obsolete)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.”
“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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Etymology
From Middle French dixme, Old French disme (“tenth, tithe”), from Latin decimus (“tenth”). Doublet of dime.
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