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in specie - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Adverb

in specie (not comparable)

  • (obsolete) In respect to kind
    • ✤ Although the power of a king is lesser in degree than an emperor, it is the similar in specie.
  • (law, finance) In the actual form, especially in the context of a distribution of assets or a loan repayment.
  • (law, finance) In coin or monetary metal, in contrast to fiat currency or other paper.
    • ✤ “The estate of £500 a-year I have given to you, Mr Jones: and as I know the inconvenience which attends the want of ready money, I have added £1000 in specie.”1

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin in + specie, ablative singular form of species (“kind, form; type”).

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Footnotes

  1. 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V: ↩

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