obolary
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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obolary (comparative more obolary, superlative most obolary)
- (nonce word) Possessing only small coins; impoverished.
- 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:
- 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 !
References[edit]
“obolary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.