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Fisc

//fɪsk// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The public treasury of Rome. Ancient-Rome
  2. 2
    a state treasury or exchequer or a royal treasury; originally the public treasury of Rome or the emperor's private purse wordnet
  3. 3
    Any state treasury or exchequer.

    "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 […]."

Etymology

Partly from Middle French fisc and partly from its etymon, Latin fiscus (“basket, money-bag, public treasury”); see fiscal.

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