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Mite @ contraction of minute, from the Latin minutum, the translation of the Greek word lepton, the very smallest bronze of copper coin Luke:12:59 Luke:21:2). Two mites made one quadrans, i.e., the fourth part of a Roman as, which was in value nearly a halfpenny. (See FARTHING.)

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