Meanings
adjectiveobolary (comparative more obolary, superlative most obolary)
comparative more obolary · superlative most obolary
- nonce wordPossessing only small coins; impoverished.
the distance is as vast between him and one of us, as subsisted between the Augustan majesty and the poorest obolary Jew that paid it tribute pittance at Jerusalem !
1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC
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