单词 | sicle |
释义 | † siclen. Obsolete. 1. A shekel. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Hebrew or Israeli coins ounceOE siclec1230 scriplea1382 mnamc1400 silverling1526 gerah1534 shekel1560 cichar1597 maneh1611 zuz1688 mina1737 mna1737 α. 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.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. 2. An ancient Persian coin, worth half of a silver stater. rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Persian coins daric1566 shahi1566 toman1566 fluce1584 mahmudi1612 sagittary1665 sicle1725 ashrafi1753 muhr ashrafi1753 kran1882 siglos1911 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. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > specific amounts of pence sixpencec1380 twelvepencec1380 twopence1477 sevenpence1558 ninepence1568 twopence halfpenny16.. fippence1607 threepence1607 sicle1720 fourpence1852 fivepence- 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1230 |
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