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A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty.

Imposing a pecuniary penalty; consisting of, or paid as, a fine. Fines, or some known mulctuary punishments. Sir W. Temple.

Of or pertaining to coin or money; pecuniary; as, the nummulary talent.

A pecuniary compensation for an injury, of eight times the value of the thing.

Pecuniary. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In a pecuniary manner; as regards money.

penditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods. Let no man anticipate uncertain profits. Rambler.

from, or dictated or characterized by, prudence; prudent; discreet; sometimes, selfish or pecuniary as distinguished from higher motives or influences; as, prudential motives. " A prudential line of conduct." Sir W. Scott.

y for information or a quarantes of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.

or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.

Pecuniary means; funds; money, or any property that can be converted into supplies; available means or capabilities of any kind. Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources. Macaulay.

Educated by one's own efforts, without instruction, or without pecuniary assistance from others.

A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority. Specifically: --

ce; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.

Free from pecuniary difficulties or encumbrances; as, he and his property are unembarrassed.

To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables.

ht of possessing a thing, either his own, or that of another as his agent, for a price or pecuniary equivalent; a seller; a vendor.