per centum
nounEtymology Latin per + centum
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Archaic Percent.
- 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...1861, Laws of Pennsylvania of the Session of 1861, page 511:
- Firearms, twenty-five per centum1891–1892, Special Consular Reports, Volume VII, page 787