per centum
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]per centum
- (law, US, dated) percent
- 1861, Laws of Pennsylvania of the Session of 1861, page 511:
- 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...
- 1887, Henry Beatty, A New Method of Computing Interest from Four Per Centum to Twelve Per Centum[1]:
- 1891–1892, Special Consular Reports, Volume VII, page 787:
- Firearms, twenty-five per centum