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ˈSaladine, a. (n.3) Hist. [ad. med.L. saladīnus (in decimæ saladinæ), f. Saladin, the name of the Sultan of Egypt and Syria (1137–93).] Saladine tax (also absol.); a tax, consisting of the tenth of a man's income, first imposed in 1188 on England and France for the support of the crusade against Saladin (see above). Modern writers substitute the proper name used attrib. or possessively.
1728Chambers Cycl. s.v., The Saladine-Tax was thus laid; That every Person who did not enter himself a Croise, was obliged to pay a Tenth of his yearly Revenue. 1752Ibid., The Carthusians, Bernardines, and some other religious, were exempted from the Saladine.
[1832Encycl. Amer. XI. 172/2 The Saladin Tenth. 1837Penny Cycl. VIII. 185/2 Saladin's tithe. 1874Stubbs Const. Hist. I. xiii. (1897) 597 The Saladin tithe.] |