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maravedi Obs. exc. Hist.|mærəˈveɪdɪ|
Forms: 5, 7 maravedis, 6 marivade, marvedie, marvadie, 7 marvedi, marvedee, myravid, merviade, maravidi, 8 marevedi, 7 erron. malvady, 7– maravedi.
[a. Sp. maravedí (= Pg. maravedim), a derivative of Arab. Murābiṭīn (pl. of murābiṭ: see marabout), the name of a Moorish dynasty (usually designated the Almoravides, this being the same word preceded by the Arabic article) which reigned at Cordova 1087–1147.]
1. An old Spanish gold coin, weighing about 60 grains and of the value of fourteen shillings.
1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. App. 64 Imposing 5. Maravidis of gold for every person. 1700J. A. Astry tr. Saavedra-Faxardo II. 138 Henry III. who tax'd 'em at five Marvedees of Gold apiece.
2. A former Spanish copper coin and money of account, valued at about 1/6 of a penny sterling.
1430in Purchas Pilgrims (1625) II. viii. 1230 And then into Spayne fear ye schon, Iakkes ben ther of little prise: For there beginneth the Marauedisez. 1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 14, lxx. maruadies, which is .xi. d. and the third parte of a peny starlyng. 1606Heywood Chall. for Beauty ii. i. (1636) C 3 If you distrust his word, take mine, which will passe in Spaine for more Myravids, then the best Squiers in England for Farthing-tokens. 1690Dryden Don Sebastian i. (1692) 14, I ask for him [a slave] a thousand Crowns. 1st Mer. Thou mean'st a thousand Marvedis. 1706Phillips, Malvady, a Spanish coin, of which about 13 make one Farthing. [Some error: Maravedis is also given, with the correct value.] 1728Morgan Algiers II. v. 313 He never parted with a maravedi but with the view of pocketing a Ducat, if not a Doblon. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xxxiii, I will strip thee of every maravedi thou hast in the world. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 408 He flung the Slave who moved the lid A purse of maravedis. 1891J. Winsor Columbus ix. 209 He promised a silken jacket, beside the income of ten thousand maravedis. |