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scyphatus [CL scyphus+-atus] 1 (as sb. m. or f.) cup or cupful. 1208 duas ciffatas cervisie et unum ferculum de elemosinario FormA 79; 1232 non habeat nisi unum panem oboli et unam magnam cofatam [MS: cifatam] cervisie Cl 161; ? 1240 habebit unum panem frumenti et caseum ‥ et unam ciphiatam cervisie Cart. Rams. I 406; 1241 R. ‥ exiit de quadam schoppa in predictis nundinis et percussit ‥ W. ‥ de quodam cifato pleno cervisie JustIt 55 m. 20d.; unum servici cyphatum de potu caritatis ‥ habere debet Cust. Westm. 138; pro ciphatu [ME: cuppe] potus, date ei es candens AncrR 77. 2 sort of (Byzantine gold, perh. bowl-shaped) coin (v. P. Grierson ‘Nummi scyphati’, Numismatic Chronicle 7th S. XI, 253–60). mille squivatorum [M. Par. Maj. 454: †squinatorum] annuam pensionem (Sent. Papae) Flor. Hist. II 302.

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