单词 | fisc |
释义 | fiscfiskn. 1. a. Roman History. The public treasury of Rome; under the Empire, the imperial treasury or privy purse of the Emperor. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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’. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. ix. 176 The Court Requires the allocution of the Fisc! 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