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- noun The
monetary unit ofBrunei minted in 1868.
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Examples
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The small leaden money, called pitis or cash, is likewise struck here for the service of the bazaar; but neither these nor the former afford any convenience to the foreign trader.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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And I joke around a lot and I say that there's no such thing as a pit bull at best friends, we only have pitis and cupcakes.
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The currency of the country and the only money allowed to be received at the king's treasury is Spanish dollars; but there is also in general circulation a species of small base coin, issued by royal authority, and named pitis.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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Filix jamaicensis non ramosa ex una radice ces - pitis instar contexta pediculis numerosis, fo - liis auriculatis, profuude secta.
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Illud nonnisi uni - cum fblium complectitur, quo pars ca - pitis viii Oseae, et integra capita ix et x cum initio xi continentur • Pa - ginae duabus constant columnis, co -
Annales Hebraeo-typographici sec. XV De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo, 1742-1831 1795
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Ead. rp/fr. et idem c: - pitis typus. — fcd Viaoiia ft.
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... 1793
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We had no previous symptoms of this terrae motus mentioned by some authors, as sulphureous smells, spring water altered as to taste and smell, agitations in the sea without wind &c.; neither can I find any of the effects or consequences that some historians relate as vertigos, ca - pitis gravedinos, nauseas, menstruery obstructions &c.
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PROBVS. biles peristases, qiiales siint: epigraplie capitia jam liberalior, jam parcior, ca« pitis caltus, ai&t literae per aversam so* litariae et inutiles, prodigiosum eorura namerum constituunt.
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792
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Abdomen nigrum, poftice attenuatum, pi - lis longioribus, longitudine ca - pitis thoracisque: annulo penul -. timo reliquis duplo longiore.
Monographia Staphylinorum sveciae Gustaf von Paykull 1789
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Trachinus Draco, ca - pitis lateribus comprcflis, verticc fcabro dcpreflb, ano capiti vicino.
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