Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the value of three oboli; hence, mean; worthless.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Of the value of three oboli; hence, mean; worthless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Of the value of
three oboli ;mean ;worthless .
Etymologies
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Late Latin triobolaris, from Latin triobolus, a coin worth three oboli, from Ancient Greek.
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Examples
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And now it feemeth, for feare that any of all their fayd Libeli & rayling Pamphlets, (that hane bin written in her highnefTe tlme | fhould perifli, (being many of them bat triobolar chartali:) they haue taken vpon them to make a Regiller: and to Print them altogether in Scotland, — as it appeareth by a part of the fayde Regifler,. all ready come from thence, and finiflied: '' B. 2.p. 46.
Typographical antiquities: an historical account of printing in England ... 1790
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