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Definition of Johannes
1. n. A Portuguese gold coin of the value of eight dollars, named from the figure of King John which it bears; -- often contracted into joe; as, a joe, or a half joe.
Definition of Johannes
1. Noun. a former Portuguese gold coin. ¹
2. Proper noun. (Hebrew male given name). ¹
3. Noun. An old Portuguese gold coin bearing a figure of (w John V of Portugal). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Johannes
1. a Portuguese coin [n JOHANNES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Johannes
Literary usage of Johannes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"187) doubtless correctly identified him with that Johannes Scholasticus against
... 269 sqq., Leipsic, 1887) he is also identical with Bishop Johannes of ..."
2. Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1887)
"... Johannes Lamberte, dubitans statum et interesse sua de et in ... esse vacua,
et noticiam habens quod predictus Johannes ..."
3. Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year by New-York Historical Society (1914)
"... before us has appeared Abraham Verplanck burgher and inhabitant of this place,
who declared to convey and cede to and in behalf of the Reverend Johannes ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"At one time he signed with initials, at others with Johannes, at others again
with the name of his father joined to his own. ..."
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