“seraphin”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

seraphin

释义

‖ ˈseraphin Obs.
Forms: 6 seraffine, serafyne, seraphine, xeraphin, 7 serafin, seraffin, zeraphin, 8 seraphyn, xerapheen, 9 zeraphim.
[a. Pg. xerafim, xarafim, a. Arab. sharīfī, orig. the name of a gold coin. Cf. seraph².]
A silver coin formerly current in India; for its value, see quot. 1727.
1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. 56 b, He must give him 600 Serafynes.1584R. Barret in Hakluyt's Voy. (1599) II. i. 273 There is also stamped in Ormuz a seraphine of gold, which is litle and round.1588Hickock tr. C. Frederick's Voy. 37, I lost my 800 Seraffines or duckets.a1613W. Hawkins in Purchas Pilgrims (1625) I. 217 Inprimis, of Seraffins Ecberi, which be ten Rupias a piece, there are sixtie Leckes.1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 207 The Cruzado of Gold, 12 Zeraphins.1704Churchill's Collect. Voy. & Trav. III. 772/2 A Candil of Rice was sold..for 2500 Seraphyns, or Gilders.1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. xxi. 249 Their Soldiers Pay [at Goa] is very small... They have but six Xerapheens per Month,..a Xerapheen is worth about sixteen Pence half Peny Ster.1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Zeraphim, a former money of account of Goa, of 240 Portugese reis.

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