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English
Etymology
From Latin crumena (“purse”).
Noun
crumenal (plural crumenals)
- (obsolete) A purse.
- 1850, Henry K. Oliver, Bees and Honey, in Transactions of the Essex Agricultural Society for 1850, Essex Agricultural Society, page 115,
- and could only have rewarded, if they rewarded at all, by inserting their hands into their own crumenal pouches .
Derived terms
Adjective
crumenal (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Monetary, fiscal.
1881, R. Mounteney Jephson, “A Capital Farce for Snoole”, in Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, volume 62, Richard Bentley & Son, page 534:I now plainly saw that Mr. Snoole's sincerity must be put to that most searching of tests—the crumenal one, the efficacy of which is so soon found out, and so simply illustrated by schoolboys:—"Will you take your oath?—"Yes."—"Will you bet sixpence?"—"No."
- (by extension, obsolete) Decisive, conclusive.