Citations:addecimate

English citations of addecimate

• 1797, George Macartney, An historical account of the embassy to the emperor of China, abridged, page 289:

  But they have imaginary money, though still addecimated, extending much lower than a lee, which is of a circular form, having a square hole in the middle to admit packthread, upon which they are strung in tens, and multiples of tens, for mutual convenience in traffic.