Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An Italian coin, the denier.

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Examples

  • Eastern Rome while the Dirham is the silver denarius, whence denier, danaro, dínheiro, etc., etc. The oldest diners date from

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • XIV, wrote a celebrated treatise, "Dell 'impiego del danaro", to justify an opinion which in this matter resembles that of Calvin.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • As in the shops under the Colonnade where devotional knick-knacks are sold, you can buy a black china image or a white one, whichever you like; so with the pictures -- the black and white are placed side by side -- _pagando il danaro si puo scegliere_.

    Essays on Life, Art and Science Samuel Butler 1868

  • [FN#460] I would remind the reader that the Dinár is the golden denarius (or solidus) of Eastern Rome while the Dirham is the silver denarius, whence denier, danaro, dínheiro, etc., etc. The oldest diners date from A.H. 91-92 (= 714-15) and we find the following description of one struck in A.H. 96 by Al-Walid the

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Si credeva che egli somministrasse danaro per provvedere armi, e che provvedesse ai bisogni della SocietA.

    Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals Byron, George G 1854

  • But then I bethought me the ` Law 'was good ware too, and had as good a right to be charged for as ` Justice;' for people set no store by cheap things, and if I sold the ` Law 'at one danaro, I should be doing it a wrong.

    Romola George Eliot 1849

  • It isn't for the profit; I hardly get a danaro by the whole lot.

    Romola George Eliot 1849

  • Si credeva che egli somministrasse danaro per provvedere armi, e che provvedesse ai bisogni della Società.

    Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • Soalche fonuna di danaro contante, oqualche abile, luogo di monte; credito, o aualfivo -

    Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782

  • Geld und Credit, I, 218.) 691 While the words _pecunia_, _danaro_, _dinero_, and _argent_, are all derived from unessential qualities, the German word for money,

    System der volkswirthschaft. English Wilhelm Roscher 1855

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