munerary

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adjective

Of or pertaining to gifts; having the nature of a gift.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivemunerary (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteOf or pertaining to gifts; having the nature of a gift.

    After, / Alone upon the Hill of the Kingdom, / Among memorial emblems of / Your love, and munerary winds / Whose gift was the sweetness of the cedar, […]

    1921, Bennett Weaver, “Marsea”, in The Garden of Seven Trees, Boston: The Cornhill Publishing Company, page 83
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    But from what I saw and heard in America, I was convinced that it is a very imperfect method of preventing either munerary or other influence; for by means of tickets printed on paper of a particular colour, and by other similar devices, it is generally well known for whom a person votes.

    1824, An Englishman [Isaac Candler], “The Government” (chapter XXVI), in A Summary View of America: Comprising a Description of the Face of the Country, and of Several of the Principal Cities […], London: Printed for T. Cadell […] and W. Blackwood […], page 389

    These precautions before returning an answer would appear to be somewhat unnecessary, inasmuch as the friends of the girl might be well assured that sun, moon, and stars, no less than the whole mundane creation, had been ransacked by witch, soothsayer, and astrologer, and auspicious prognostics obtained, before the munerary overture could have been ventured upon, even by the least superstitious of Hindoo parents; […]

    1839 October, “The Women of Hindostan” (chapter IV), in The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australasia (New Series), volume 30, number 118, London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., page 115

Origin

  1. Latinmūnerārius
  2. Englishmunerary

Borrowed from Latin mūnerārius, from mūnus (“service; gift”).

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