sicca

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Ergo efficiens causa melancholiae est calida et sicca intemperies non frigida et sicca, quod multi opinati sunt, oritur enim a calore celebri assante sanguinem, &c.; tum quod aromata sanguinem incendunt solitudo, vigiliae, febris praecedens, meditatio, studium, et haec omnia calefaciunt, ergo ratum sit, &c 2432.

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  1. Newly coined: said of the rupee in India.
  2. Sicca rupee originally, a newly coined rupee, valued at a premium over those which were worn or supposed to be worn by use: later (1793), a rupee coined by order of the government of Bengal, and bearing the impress of the nineteenth year of the Great Mogul. The sicca rupee was abolished as a current coin in 1836. It was richer in silver than the “Company's rupee.”

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  1. from Hind, sikka, in some dialects sikā, Marathi sikkā, sikā, a coin so called, also a coining-die, a mark, seal, signet, =Persian sikka, from Arabic sikka, a coining-die.
 

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