单词 | pecunial |
释义 | † pecunialadj. Obsolete (Scottish in later use). 1. a. Consisting of or exacted in money; = pecuniary adj. 1. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > fine > [adjective] pecunialc1395 pecuniar1423 mulctative1610 society > trade and finance > money > [adjective] > consisting of money pecuniary1506 pecunialc1600 moneyed1773 c1395 G. Chaucer Friar's Tale 1314 Ther myghte asterte hym no pecunyal [v.rr. peccunylil, pecuniale] peyne. 1551 Dundee Burgh Court Bks. II. f. 90, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pecunial And the faltouris to be punisschit with pecuniall sovmis to be gevine to [etc.]. c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1825) 112 They sould offer him a certayne pecuniall sowme in recompance. 1629 in S. A. Gillon Sel. Justiciary Cases (1953) I. 106 That upone presumptiones judges can nocht proceid to inflict the pane of daithe bot uther corporal or pecuniall panes. a1686 J. Gordon Hist. Scots Affairs (1841) III. 55 To impose a pecunialle fyne upon all who went to England to marrye. 1710 G. Crawford Hist. Shire of Renfrew 3 in Geneal. Hist. Family of Stewarts Such as went a Fishing before that Day, were liable to a certain Pecunial Mulct. a1730 Gideon Guthrie (1900) 54 We were all sentenced, they to penal and pecunial Mulcts, and I to banishment. b. Having to do with monetary penalties. ΚΠ 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. lvii Englishmen dyd litle passe vpon the obseruacion and kepynge of penall lawes or pecuniall statutes. 1595 T. Bedingfield tr. N. Machiavelli Florentine Hist. ii. 46 Condemned in pecuniall punishment. 2. Of or relating to money; = pecuniary adj. 3. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > [adjective] pecunial1516 pecuniary1612 denariate1632 pounds, shillings, and pence?1650 monetary1838 1516 tr. Kalender of Shepeherdes (new ed.) sig. T2 Cease of your pecunyall pensement. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 320/1 Pecunyall, belongynge to money, pecunial. 1561 R. Norvell Myroure of ane Christiane f. 59v That I neuer hurded treasure pecuniall. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.c1395 |
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