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单词 fisc
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fiscfiskn.

Brit. /fɪsk/, U.S. /fɪsk/
Forms: Also 1600s fisque.
Etymology: < French fisc, or independently < Latin fiscus rush-basket, purse, treasury. The current spelling in Scots Law is fisk, in other uses fisc.
1.
a. Roman History. The public treasury of Rome; under the Empire, the imperial treasury or privy purse of the Emperor.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > department managing public money > in Roman Empire
fisc1598
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales ii. x. 49 Cæsar..bestowed the goods of Aemilia Musa, a rich woman, fallen to the fisque; vpon Aemilius Lepidus.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 463 The Fisque or city chamber by that means was soone acquit of all debts.
1679 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 1st Pt. 274 The endowments of the heathenish temples were..adjudged to the fisc, or the Emperor's exchequer.
1865 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire (new ed.) VIII. lxiii. 55 The endowment of the professors..seems to have been made from the fisc.
b. Any royal or state treasury; an exchequer. Now rare (Historical or with allusion to ‘confiscation’). Also attributive in fisc-lands (Historical) = fiscal lands at fiscal adj. 1b.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > department managing public money
treasuryc1383
exchequera1420
chequer1425
chequer-chambera1513
fiscal1590
fisc1599
fiscus1650
society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > of a sovereign or state
exchequer1565
fiscal1590
fisc1599
finances1656
the public purse1659
public finance1676
Consolidated Fund1753
federal fund1836
money supply1871
treasury-chest1877
Federal Reserve1913
Fed1942
monetary aggregate1946
1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered iii. 11 As if your inuentions were all Treasure trouue, fiske royal.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 58 Peru..By yeerly Fleets into his Fisk dooth flowe.
1697 J. Evelyn Numismata vii. 233 The Fisque and publick Treasure.
1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. v. xlviii. 360 A fine must therefore be paid to the fisc.
1801 A. Ranken Hist. France I. 251 Public or fisc lands, which formed the revenue of the government.
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. iii. ii. 287 King Chlotaire demanded for the fisc the third part of the revenue of the churches.
1868 Mill in Star 13 Mar. How can that be confiscation by which the fisc is not to receive anything.
c. jocosely. A man's purse or ‘exchequer’.
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society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > of an individual or company
exchequer1619
finances1686
bank balance1805
fisc1820
one's own poke-nook1821
roll1846
bankroll1849
society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money-bag, -purse, or -belt > [noun]
pungeOE
by-girdlec1000
purselOE
almonerc1330
pouch1355
almonryc1450
penny purse1523
cherry-bag1539
money bag1562
bung1567
jan1610
penny pouch1650
coda1680
zone1692
spung1728
money purse1759
spleuchan1787
skin1795
sporran1817
fisc1820
moneybelt1833
poke1859
purse-belt1901
society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > treasury > [noun] > of an individual
fisc1820
1820 C. Lamb in London Mag. Dec. 624/1 The streams were perennial which fed his fisc.
2. Scots Law. The public treasury or ‘Crown’, to which estates lapse by escheat: in the phrase ‘as to the fisc’ (translating quoad fiscum), i.e. so far as the Crown rights of escheat are concerned. †Hence sometimes used for: The right of the Crown to the estate of a rebel.
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1641 Sc. Acts Chas. I (1870) V. 415 § 107 Provyding allwayes that..the bandis or contractes heirby ordeened to perteene to þe neerest of kine..shall not fall wnder þe compas of escheat nor ȝit any pairt therof perteene to þe relict jure relictæ Bot shall remaine in þe owne nature quoad fiscum et relictam as they wer befor þe making of this acte.]
1680 in J. Lauder Hist. Notices (1848) I. 269 The King..was sending..a letter converting the sentence to banishment, and confiscating his ship and all his goods, but preferring his creditors theirin to his fisk.
1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. ii. ii. §11 Personal bonds are now moveable in respect of succession, but heritable as to the fisk, and husband and wife.
1773 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. I. ii. ii. §10 (heading) By the word fisk in this statute [see quot. 1641] is meant the crown's right to the moveable estate of persons denounced rebels.
3. = fiscal n.
a. Scots Law (Obsolete).
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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > state or public law officers > state or public prosecutor
quaestora1387
promoter1485
fiscal1539
actor1598
fisc1732
public prosecutor1750
district attorney1856
Director of Public Prosecutions1879
procurator1917
D.A.1934
D.P.P.1942
1732 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) iii. 19 Every Sheriff or Fisk of Court, to whom the Execution of the Warrand is committed, orders a Party..for the Prisoner's safe transportation..and gives Receipt to the Fisk of the County he receives him from.
b. Used by Browning after Italian fisco.
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1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. ix. 176 The Court Requires the allocution of the Fisc!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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