per mensem

[ per men-sem; English per men-suhm ]

adverb

, Latin.

1. by the month.

per mensem

/ ˈpɜː ˈmɛnsəm /

adverb

1. every month or by the month

Example Sentences

Per, pėr, prep. through, by means of, according to.—Per annum, year by year: for each year; Per capita, by heads, implying equal rights to two or more persons; Per cent., per hundred; Per contra, on the contrary: as a set-off; Per diem, every day: day by day; Per mensem, monthly: by the month; Per saltum, at a single leap: all at once; Per se, by himself, &c.: essentially.

From Project Gutenberg

All this Variety of Bills had so stupified the Parisians, and they gave them such intire Credit, that before the Arret of the246 fifteenth of May 1720, which sunk the Bills from ten per Cent. per Mensem to half their Value, a Parisian did not care to be paid in Specie; for he thought Bills were far better, not only because they were not liable to be lower’d, but because they were more ready to count, and especially to carry.

From Project Gutenberg

These were called delegates, and received ten rupees each per mensem.

From Project Gutenberg

And at the end of the war we were receiving the same number of pounds per mensem in paper as we had received at the beginning in gold.

From Project Gutenberg

The consumption of brundo, or raw beef, and the sleeping off a surfeit which, in its progress towards stupor, exhilarated them to positive intoxication, formed the sum total of their services; yet every idle noisy vagabond who was in the receipt of four pieces of salt per mensem, with the promise of a new cloth annually, value three shillings and nine-pence sterling, held himself entitled to a permanent place before the drawingroom fire.

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