per centum

per centum

English

Etymology

Latin per + centum

Noun

per centum

1. (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.
   • 1891–1892, Special Consular Reports, Volume VII, page 787:

     Firearms, twenty-five per centum