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- noun Plural form of
uncia .
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Examples
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He replied: “If a person entrusted you with a single uncia [a small weight] of silver clandestinely, and returned to you a libra [= 12 unciae] of silver in public, is this theft?”
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Plus proficiet gutta mea, quam tot eorum drachmae et unciae.
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He had a pouch half full of copper coins, mostly unciae, or one-twelfth of an as, the as being a pound of copper divided into twelve "ounces" (the first coins Romans had minted, according to Agnes).
Wagers of Sin Asprin, Robert 1996
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Ad altare sub fferetro Sancti Erkenwaldi pondus calicis Ad altare Sancti Dunatani pro Cantaria Hyltofte 'pondue calicia xviij unciae j quarterium.
Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform] 1770
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Ad altare Sancti Dunstani "sub custodia domini Willielmi Bamabe pondus oaHcis xiiij unciae et dimidia.
Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform] 1770
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