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.
| 1728 Chambers 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. 1752 Ibid., The Carthusians, Bernardines, and some other religious, were exempted from the Saladine. |
| [1832 Encycl. Amer. XI. 172/2 The Saladin Tenth. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 185/2 Saladin's tithe. 1874 Stubbs Const. Hist. I. xiii. (1897) 597 The Saladin tithe.] |