单词 | nummulary |
释义 | nummularyn.adj. Now rare. A money changer. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 1781 For the Pharisens in the Temple sett collibists and numularies [glossed comvne chaungers or vsurers; L. nummularios] Þat who þat wantid offring myght borowe of thaym some penyes. B. adj. 1. Of or relating to coinage or money. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [adjective] nummary1603 monetarian1716 numismarian1716 numismatical1716 nummulary1767 numismatic1792 1767 W. Clarke Connexion Coins 283 The Romans applied all their nummulary language to such real coins as were struck within that empire. 1767 W. Clarke Connexion Coins 483 The Roman nummulary pound was one quarter less than that by which this payment was adjusted. 1817 R. Ruding Ann. Coinage Brit. I. 205 The nummulary Talent, which was in common use by the Greeks, and according to which the Anglo-Saxons rated their greater fines, that is, by multiples of 60 Pounds. 1838 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 514/2 The twelfth part of the nummulary Saxon pound, and the fifteenth of the commercial. 1872 F. Hall Rec. Exempl. False Philol. 76 Neither, in passing, does the nummulary metaphor of Taylor go quite on all fours. 1970 Jrnl. Econ. Lit. 8 119/2 A record of actual experiments in money made by various states of the ancient and modern world, as drawn from their statutes, customs,..coins, nummulary systems and other sources of information. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > coughed or spat up > of sputa: coin-shaped nummulary1833 nummular1839 nummulated1844 1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 131/1 These flatten at the bottom of the vessel like a piece of money, whence they have sometimes been called nummulary sputa. 1835 Lancet 18 Apr. 71/1 It falls to the bottom of the vessel in round flat discs, or what are called nummulary muco-purulent masses of a whitish-yellow hue. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c1429 |
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