pecunial

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English[edit]

Adjective[edit]

pecunial (comparative more pecunial, superlative most pecunial)

  1. (obsolete) pecuniary
    • 2003, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Ronald L. Ecker, The Canterbury Tales, Penguin Books, page 157:
      A thing which causes more pecunial dearth than all the foppish compliments are worth…

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pecunial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)