\[ **BT: [[English language]]** ] --- # impecunious > ‘*a.* Destitute of money.’[^1] [[Impecuniousness has been termed ‘the disease of the wise’.]][^2] [^1]: Peter Finch ed., ‘Impecunious’, *[[Finch, The New Elizabethan Reference Dictionary, 1959|The New Elizabethan Reference Dictionary]]* (London: George Newnes, \[1959?]), p. 740. [^2]: Manly P. Hall, ‘Introduction’, in *[[Taylor, Theoretic Arithmetic of the Pythagoreans, 1816|The Theoretic Arithmetic of the Pythagoreans]]* (London: J. Valpy, 1816; York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1972), p. v. Citations refer to the 1972 edition. Internet Archive, <https://archive.org/embed/theoreticarithme0000tay>.