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† peˈcunial, a. Obs.
[ad. L. pecūniāl-is, f. pecūnia ‘money’; in earlier sense ‘property’, f. pecu cattle; cognate with OTeut. *fehu, Goth. faihu, OE. feoh, féo: see fee.]
1. Consisting of or exacted in money; = pecuniary a. 1.
b. Having to do with pecuniary penalties.
c1386Chaucer Friar's T. 16 If any persone wolde vp-on hem pleyne Ther myghte asterte hym no pecunyal peyne. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII (1550) 57 Englishmen dyd litle passe vpon the obseruacion and kepynge of penall lawes or pecuniall statutes. 1582–8Hist. Jas. VI (1804) 174 They should offer him a certane pecuniall sum in recompence. 1594T. Bedingfield tr. Machiavelli's Florentine Hist. (1595) 46 Condemned in pecuniall punishment. 1714–26in Mem. Gideon Guthrie (1900) 54 We were all sentenced, they to penal and pecunial mulcts and I to banishment.
2. Of or pertaining to money; = pecuniary a. 2.
1508Kalender Sheph. (1892) III. App. 180 Cease of your pecunyall pensement. 1530Palsgr. 320/1 Pecunyall, belongynge to money, pecunial. |