fisc
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /fɪsk/
fisc (plural fiscs)
- (Ancient Rome) The public treasury of Rome.
- Any state treasury or exchequer.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, p. 340:
- When they had resolved to appropriate to the Fisc, a certain portion of the landed property of their conquered country, it was their business to render their bank a real fund of credit […].
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, p. 340:
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