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per centum en · NOUN

Etymology

Latin per + centum

Meanings

  1. (archaic) Percent.
    • More than sixty per centum of the population of Australia is settled in the States along whose littoral the Lyrebird ranges[.] 1951, Ambrose Pratt, The Lore of the Lyrebird, Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, page 17:
    • Firearms, twenty-five per centum 1891–1892, Special Consular Reports, Volume VII, page 787
    • On all dividends which do not exceed six per centum per annum, eight per centum; on dividends exceeding six per centum and not exceeding seven per centum, a tax of nine per centum... 1861, Laws of Pennsylvania of the Session of 1861, page 511: