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disme (c.1141)

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disme (c.1141)

diesme,  dim,  dime,  dism,  dyme, 
(pl. dimis  YBB Ed II xvii 196)  
  FEW:  decem 3,23b Gdf:  disme 2,721a GdfC: TL: disme 2,1947 DEAF:  disme  DMF:  dîme  TLF:  dîme  OED:  dime n.  MED:  dime n.  DMLBS:  decimus 576a

a.num.

tenth
( c.1141; MS: s.xiii4/4 ) La disme sibilla En mains lius conversa  Sibile 45
( 1140-60; MS: 1140-60 )  el disme an de apostoliéd nostre seignur Innocent l’apostolie  Ely Arch 270.4.78
( MS: s.xiiex ) As jurs de quaresme [...] a la disme ure pleine facent ceo ke lur est enjuint  TLL i 28
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  L’homme trestut abandoune, Et voet q’il ait la seignorye, Fors soulement de la dyme partye Voet q’il ahoure son creatour  Mar Diable 369
( MS: s.xv1/4 )  [...] oeptisme, noefisme, disme, unzisme [...]  Donatus 286

s.

1 tenth one
( 1139-50; MS: s.xiiex ) Par nun tuz les (=counties) numerai [...]; Le disme si est Cornuaille  Description Verse 101
2tenth part
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  A Geldefort fist toz mener Cels de Normendie e diesmer, E quant la diesme fu partie [...] Por ço que grant gent li sembla, La diesme derechief diesma  Rom de Rou wace ii 160.7433 and 7436
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Mes pur quei dune l'en plus disme K'utime, u neovime, u dozime [...]?  Lum Lais ANTS 7957
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  Trestouz çaindroie d’une corde Plus tost que je ne vous recorde La dime de misericorde Ki le coer men ami encorde  Ross ANTS 1231
( a.1399; MS: a.1399 )  qe chescune (=clerk) deveroit paier de benefice taxe xvj. d. de la marc qe amount a une disme entier  Anon Chr1 124.14
3lawtithe
( 1140-60; MS: 1140-60 )  que cel yglise seit franche [...] en servises, en dettes, en dismes, en censes, en chevages [...]  Ely Arch 268.3.11
( s.xiiiex; MS: c.1300 )  tuz les garbes qe vous donez a dyme de chescun maner du blye  HENLEY2 422
( 1303 )  [...] cum en gros dimes, menu dimis, oblaciounz, obvenciounz e altre manere de yseu de chapele  YBB 30-31 Ed I 339
( 1311 )  le quel clerk prist les esplees come en oblaciouns, gros dysmes et menuz dimes  YBB Ed II xi 37
( 1334 )  les dites taxes del quinzyme denier e del disme  Northumb 211
secunde disme
secund1

See also:

disime  redisme 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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