congiary
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin congiarium, from congius (“a liquid measure”).
Noun
congiary (plural congiaries)
- A present of corn, wine, oil, etc. or later of money, made by a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the people.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “congiary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)