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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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
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
