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单词 sicle
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siclen.

Forms: α. Middle English–1700s sicle, Middle English–1500s sycle, 1500s–1600s sickle. β. Middle English–1500s cicle, 1500s cycle.
Etymology: < Old French sicle, cicle (modern French sicle ), < late Latin siclus , < Greek σίκλος , σίγλος , < Hebrew sheqel : see shekel n. Compare Middle Dutch sicle, cicle, cikel, Dutch sikkel, German †sickel, sikel.
Obsolete.
1. A shekel.
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α.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 203 Me..salde his euesunge..for twa hundret sicles of seoluer.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ezek. xlv. 12 Forsothe a sicle shal haue twenti halpenns; forsothe twenti syclis, and fyue and twenti syclis maken a besaunt.
c1400 N. Love tr. Bonaventura Mirror Life Christ (1908) xxxvi. 188 Tweyne mytes, the ferthe parte of a sicle.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings vii. 16 A buszshel of fyne meell was solde for a Sycle, and two buszshels of barlye for a Sycle also.
1565 J. Jewel tr. Origen in Replie Hardinges Answeare xix. 592 With the Holy Sicle wee must buie Christe, that may put away our Sinnes. The Holy Sicle beareth the fourme of our Faithe.
1602 L. Lloyd Briefe Conf. Divers Lawes 77 The Elders of that citie should..mearce him in an hundred sickles of siluer.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. xiv. 45 The accustomed imposition a Sicle or didrachme, the fourth part of an ounce of silver.
β. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 135 Mina is a manere weiȝte oþer a maner money, and weieþ sixty cicles.c1400 N. Love tr. Bonaventura Mirror Life Christ (1908) ix. 62 The child..was bouȝt aȝen as a seruaunt for v. penyes, that weren cleped cicles.1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Acts 28 b A sepulchre whiche Abraham bought for an hundreth siluer cicles.a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1866) I. 405 A cycle or a homer, or an ephah.
2. An ancient Persian coin, worth half of a silver stater. rare.
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1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. I. v. 184 He begs Aleander to send him the figur'd Inscription of the Sicles, of which he had spoke to him.
3. The value of two silver pennies. rare.
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society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > specific amounts of pence
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1720 J. Johnson Coll. Eccl. Laws Ch. Eng. dccxxxiv. viii We will that the Adulterers pay thirty Sicles, or sixty Pieces of Silver to the Church.
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