fisc — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The public treasury of Rome.

   Usage

   • Ancient-Rome

2. Any state treasury or exchequer.

   Examples

   More examples (2)

   When they had resolved to appropriate to the Fisc, a certain portion of the landed property of their conquered country, it was their business to render their bank a real fund of credit […].

   He did not mention that Trump is about as popular with the British public as drug-resistant syphilis and that it would be political suicide to bribe him with cash out of the public fisc.

Noun

1. a state treasury or exchequer or a royal treasury; originally the public treasury of Rome or the emperor's private purse

   Broader terms

   treasuryexchequer