specie

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Type or kind, in various uses of the phrase in specie.

2. 2

   Money in the form of coins made from precious metal that has an intrinsic value

   Money in the form of coins made from precious metal that has an intrinsic value; coinage.

   • I received one month's pay in specie while on the march to Virginia, in the year 1781, and except that, I never received any pay worth the name while I belonged to the army.
   • ‘It was not money or specie he thought himself hunting!’
   • “Dick” Counterfly had absquatulated swiftly into the night, leaving his son with only a pocketful of specie and the tender admonition, “Got to ‘scram,’ kid — write if you get work.”
3. 3

   singular of species

The neighborhood

• neighborsub specie aeterni
• neighborpayment in kind