xc
AmericanEtymology
Origin of xc
(e)x 1 (in the finance sense “without, not including”) + c(oupon) (in the finance sense “a certificate calling for the payment of periodic interest on a bond”)
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I am enjoying my 55th consecutive year of xc skiing.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2018
The Master preached the sermon on the text Psalm xc.
From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by John Knox Laughton
All these objections apply rather to the teaching of the Mohammadan Common Law than to the Koran xc 39.
From A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885 by Cherágh Ali
See also Anderson's Introduction, p. xc, to Hjaltalin and Goudie's O.S. contra.
From Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns by James Gray
Whereunto the antiquitie had so moche care, that thei would have nothing els written in their hedde peces, but the nomber that thei were named by, callyng them firste, seconde, thirde, and fourthe xc.
From Machiavelli, Volume I by Edward Dacres
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