specie
IPA: spˈiʃi
noun
- Type or kind, in various uses of the phrase in specie.
- Money, especially in the form of coins made from precious metal, that has an intrinsic value; coinage.
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Examples of "specie" in Sentences
- It is home to the crayfish species.
- The diet of this species is carrion.
- The leaves of this species are palmate.
- The bulk of the species are in the museum.
- The following is the taxonomy for the species.
- One species, the Whiskered Treeswift, is a species of primary forest.
- The Bank issued its own currency and kept its working funds in specie.
- _sub specie æternitatis_, but _sub specie_ the reign of Queen Victoria.
- The baby proved to be a mixture of the ape species and the human species.
- The main commercial species in the high seas are the highly migratory species.
- The species might cohabit with other species that are too large for it to eat.
- Sanety, that endangered specie is finally creeping into congress, cut the porc, reestablish the tax on the rich.
- He calculates the numeraire, or what we call specie, then actually existing in France, at about eighty-eight millions of the same English money.
- The big ship brings 500 passengers, 56,000 dols. in specie, and upwards of 6000 tons of cargo — consisting principally of wheat, corn, and provisions.
- Washington, had resolved that President Lincoln's amnesty proclamation was unconstitutional, and that the army and navy ought to be paid in specie or its equivalent.
- Forced to pay for land in specie, speculators and capitalists turned their investment attention elsewhere, toward goods which they could buy on credit or with paper money. 99
- Congress, prior to its adjournment, empowered President Davis to seize the specie in the banks for supplies, and also empowered the Secretary of the Treasury to procure specie from the different States upon terms agreed upon with the State authorities.
- The act establishing the independent treasury in 1846, was drawn by me, avowedly as a 'specie receiving and _specie circulating_' institution, and to restrain excessive issues by the banks; but it is impossible now to carry that system into practical execution.
- Rent, which could be paid in specie or livestock, was payable either at the landdrost or the Castle at the Cape. 25 Farmers in outlying areas often paid several years at once, presumably due in part to the long journey from their farms to the seats of colonial authority.
- When a cashier at the bank realizes that there is a shortage of funds, he suggests that the bank directors withdraw their personal claims to allow working customers to be paid in specie, but he is overruled so the directors do not have to sacrifice any of their own funds. 81 Likewise, Things as They Will Be, Or, All Barkers Are Not