metical
noun
a brass coin and monetary unit of Mozambique, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the escudo in 1980.
meticals
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pluralof metical.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Note that 100 meticals of Balsara weigh 17 ounces and a halfe sottile Venetian, and of Aleppo drams 150, vt supra.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt
The abacee weighs two meticals, the mahmoody is half an abacee, and the shahee is half a mahamoody.
The Venetian money is worth larines 88 per hundred meticals which is 150 drams of Aleppo, vt supra.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt
About 300,000 meticals of otto, valued at £932,077, were exported in 1876 from Philippopolis, chiefly to France, Australia, America, and Germany.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various
