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pe·cu·ni·ar·y

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–adjective

1.	of or pertaining to money: pecuniary difficulties.

2.	consisting of or given or exacted in money or monetary payments: pecuniary tributes.

3.	(of a crime, violation, etc.) involving a money penalty or fine.

[Origin: 1495–1505; < L pecūniārius, deriv. of pecūnia property, money (pecūn-, deriv. of pecū flock (see peculiar), with -ūn- as in tribūna tribune¹, fortūna fortune, etc. + -ia -ia); see -ary

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pe·cu·ni·ar·i·ly

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—Synonyms 1, 2. See financial.

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pe·cu·ni·ar·y Audio Help (pĭ-kyōō'nē-ěr'ē) Pronunciation Key
adj.

Of or relating to money: a pecuniary loss; pecuniary motives.
Requiring payment of money: a pecuniary offense.

[Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia, property, wealth; see peku- in Indo-European roots.]

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1502, from L. pecuniarius "pertaining to money," from pecunia "money, property, wealth," from pecu "cattle, flock," from PIE base *peku- (cf. Skt. pasu- "cattle," Goth. faihu "money, fortune," O.E. feoh "cattle, money"). Livestock was the measure of wealth in the ancient world. For a related sense development in O.E., see fee. Cf. also Welsh tlws "jewel," cognate with Ir. tlus "cattle," connected via notion of "valuable thing."

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pecuniary
adjective
relating to or involving money; "monetary rewards"; "he received thanks but no pecuniary compensation for his services" [syn: monetary]

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Main Entry: pe·cu·ni·ary
Pronunciation: pi-'kyü-nE-"er-E
Function: adjective
: consisting of, measured in, or relating to money <pecuniary damages>

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Pecuniary

Fee\ (f[=e]), n. [OE. fe, feh, feoh, cattle, property, money, fief, AS. feoh cattle, property, money; the senses of "property, money," arising from cattle being used in early times as a medium of exchange or payment, property chiefly consisting of cattle; akin to OS. fehu cattle, property, D. vee cattle, OHG. fihu, fehu, G. vieh, Icel. f[=e] cattle, property, money, Goth. fa['i]hu, L. pecus cattle, pecunia property, money, Skr. pa[,c]u cattle, perh. orig., "a fastened or tethered animal," from a root signifying to bind, and perh. akin to E. fang, fair, a.; cf. OF. fie, flu, feu, fleu, fief, F. fief, from German, of the same origin. the sense fief is due to the French. [root]249. Cf. Feud, Fief, Fellow, Pecuniary.]

1. property; possession; tenure. "Laden with rich fee." --Spenser.

Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee. --Wordsworth.

2. Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc.

To plead for love deserves more fee than hate. --Shak.

3. (Feud. Law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.

4. (Eng. Law) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.

Note: All the land in England, except the crown land, is of this kind. An absolute fee, or fee simple, is land which a man holds to himself and his heirs forever, who are called tenants in fee simple. In modern writers, by fee is usually meant fee simple. A limited fee may be a qualified or base fee, which ceases with the existence of certain conditions; or a conditional fee, or fee tail, which is limited to particular heirs. --Blackstone.

5. (Amer. Law) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure.

Fee estate (Eng. Law), land or tenements held in fee in consideration or some acknowledgment or service rendered to the lord.

Fee farm (Law), land held of another in fee, in consideration of an annual rent, without homage, fealty, or any other service than that mentioned in the feoffment; an estate in fee simple, subject to a perpetual rent. --Blackstone.

Fee farm rent (Eng. Law), a perpetual rent reserved upon a conveyance in fee simple.

Fee fund (Scot. Law), certain court dues out of which the clerks and other court officers are paid.

Fee simple (Law), an absolute fee; a fee without conditions or limits.

Buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a quarter. --Shak.

Fee tail (Law), an estate of inheritance, limited and restrained to some particular heirs. --Burill.

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Pecuniary

Pec"o*ra\, n. pl. [NL., fr. L. pecus. See Pecuniary.] (Zo["o]l.) An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle.

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Pecuniary

Pe*cul"iar\, a. [L. peculiaris, fr. peculium private property, akin to pecunia money: cf. OF. peculier. See Pecuniary.]

1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation.

And purify unto himself a peculiar people. --Titus ii. 14.

Hymns . . . that Christianity hath peculiar unto itself. --Hooker.

2. Particular; individual; special; appropriate.

While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat. --Milton.

My fate is Juno's most peculiar care. --Dryden.

3. Unusual; singular; rare; strange; as, the sky had a peculiarappearance.

Syn: Peculiar, Special, Especial.

Usage: Peculiar is from the Roman peculium, which was a thing emphatically and distinctively one's own, and hence was dear. The former sense always belongs to peculiar (as, a peculiar style, peculiar manners, etc.), and usually so much of the latter as to involve feelings of interest; as, peculiar care, watchfulness, satisfaction, etc. Nothing of this kind belongs to special and especial. They mark simply the relation of species to genus, and denote that there is something in this case more than ordinary; as, a special act of Congress; especial pains, etc.

Beauty, which, either walking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces. --Milton.

For naught so vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give. --Shak.

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Pecuniary

Pe*cun"ia*ry\, a. [L. pecuniarius, fr. pecunia money, orig., property in cattle, fr. pecus cattle: cf. F. p['e]cuniaire. See Fee, and cf. Peculiar.]

1. Relating to money; monetary; as, a pecuniary penalty; a pecuniary reward. --Burke.

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