单词 | palintocy |
释义 | † paˈlintocy Obs. [a. obs. F. palintocie, ad. Gr. παλιντοκία repayment of interest; in quot. 1693, taken in sense ‘regeneration’; f. τόκος birth, offspring, interest of money.] (See quots.)
a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xviii. 147 In him is..begun again the Palintocy of the Megarians, and the Palingenesie of Democritus. [1847Grote Greece ii. ix. III. 60 Passing a formal Palintokia or decree, to require from the rich who had lent money upon interest the refunding of all past interest paid to them by their debtors.] |

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