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Webster 1913 Edition


Pecuniary

Pe-cun′ia-ry

(pē̍-kūn′yā̍-rĭ-ly̆)
,
Adj.
[L.
pecuniarius
, fr.
pecunia
money, orig., property in cattle, fr.
pecus
cattle: cf. F.
pécuniaire
. See
Fee
, and cf.
Peculiar
.]
1.
Relating to money; monetary;
as, a
pecuniary
penalty; a
pecuniary
reward.
Burke.

Webster 1828 Edition


Pecuniary

PECU'NIARY

,
Adj.
[L. pecuniarius, from pecunia, money, from pecus, cattle.]
1.
Relating to money; as pecuniary affairs or losses.
2.
Consisting of money; as a pecuniary mulct or penalty.

Definition 2024


pecuniary

pecuniary

English

Adjective

pecuniary (not comparable)

  1. Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.
    • 1858, Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne, Chapter IV:
      Perhaps the reader will suppose after this that the doctor had some pecuniary interest of his own in arranging the squire's loans; or, at any rate, he will think that the squire must have thought so.
    • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:
      The views of philosophers, with few exceptions, have coincided with the pecuniary interests of their class.

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