Fiscal \Fis"cal\, n.
1. The income of a prince or a state; revenue; exhequer.
[Obs.]
--Bacon.
2. A treasurer. --H. Swinburne.
3. A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty
criminal cases; -- called also procurator fiscal.
4. The solicitor in Spain and Portugal; the attorney-general.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |