Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The inner half of the frustule of a diatom.
Wiktionary
- n. microbiology, planktology The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Rom. Law) An obligation by which property of a debtor was made over to his creditor in security of his debt.
Etymologies
- hypo- + theca (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The substantial pledge has been refined into the invisible rights of a mortgage or _hypotheca_; and the agreement of sale, for a certain price, imputes from that moment the chances of gain or loss to the account of the purchaser.”
“The substantial pledge has been refined into the invisible rights of a mortgage or _hypotheca_; and the agreement of sale, for a certain price, imputes, from that moment, the chances of gain or loss to the account of the purchaser.”
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
“The substantial pledge has been refined into the invisible rights of a mortgage or hypotheca; and the agreement of sale, for a certain price, imputes, from that moment, the chances of gain or loss to the account of the purchaser.”
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
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