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Tenth   /tɛnθ/   Listen
adjective
Tenth  adj.  
1.
Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.
2.
Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.


noun
Tenth  n.  
1.
The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.
2.
The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
3.
The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe.
4.
(Mus.) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
5.
pl. (Eng. Law)
(a)
A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
(b)
(Eccl. Law) The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty.





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"Tenth" Quotes from Famous Books



... is, without doubt, the smiling at the image in the tenth week, which was probably occasioned merely by the brightness (Sigismund). Another boy in the twenty-seventh week looked at himself in the glass with a ...
— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer
... tenth muse which is worth all the nine put together, Voisenon said to Boiviel, that he was aware of all the persecutions which the clergy of Paris had made him endure for causes which he did not desire to know; he refrained also from entering on the subject of fluid gold. Touched ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 • Various
... Roman city occupied this breezy summit, it has left no name, and no relics of the old civilization have been discovered here. Catanzaro was founded in the tenth century, at the same time that Taranto was rebuilt after the Saracen destruction; an epoch of revival for Southern Italy under the vigorous Byzantine rule of Nicephorus Phocas. From my point of view, the interest of the place ...
— By the Ionian Sea - Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy • George Gissing
... saying, that although the march of these cumulative effects is not one-tenth as visible as the almost imperceptible movement of the hand that marks the seconds in one of our smallest electrical watches, they nevertheless eventually show in their result great and increasing evils, seriously affecting the child, the youth, the adult, and the ...
— Another World - Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah • Benjamin Lumley (AKA Hermes)
... the images were finally restored; under the Basilian dynasty (867-1057) and under the Comneni Byzantine art enjoyed a second golden age. And though I cannot rate the best Byzantine art of the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries quite so high as I rate that of the sixth, I am inclined to hold it superior, not only to anything that was to come, but also to the very finest achievement of the greatest ages of ...
— Art • Clive Bell


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