The scruple is a unit of weight in the English system of weights, specifically in the apothecaries' series. It is 1.296 grams. 350 scruples make one pound avoirdupois.
One scruple is 20 grains.
1 scruple is 1296 (1295.9782) milligrams.
1 scruple = 1.296 milligrams.
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For the adjective, Synonyms: least possible, littlest, merest, minimal, slightest, smallest, tiniest Antonyms: largest, maximum, most. For the noun, Synonyms: atom, bottom, dab, depth, dot, gleam, grain, hair, jot, least, lowest, margin, modicum, molecule, nadir, narrowest, particle, pittance, point, scintilla, scruple, shadow, slightest, smallest, smidgen, spark, speck, trifle, whit Antonyms: largest, maximum, most.
One scruple is 20 grains.
1 scruple is 1.3 (1.2959782) grams.
Scruple means a feeling of hesitation or doubt in regards to the morality of an action. It can mean to be reluctant or hesitate to do something that you think might be wrong. He does not scruple to ask his family for money.
1 scruple is 1296 (1295.9782) milligrams.
Man Without Scruple - 1906 was released on: USA: 24 November 1906
1 scruple = 1.296 milligrams.
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The root of the word "scruple" comes from the Latin word "scrupulus," meaning a small sharp stone or pebble. This is likely because a scruple was originally seen as a moral or ethical hesitation that felt like a small, nagging discomfort.
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(The noun for moral hesitation is almost always used as the plural "scruples". Even rarer in US use is the verb to scruple, to hesitate.)"The old manager never fired a pregnant woman, but his successor had no such scruples."
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A scruple is not a coin, but a weight. And the word is not Greek, but Latin in origin. The word scruple comes from a Latin word meaning sharp pebble, and this is true of both the English word for a weight and the word for a moral consideration. As a weight, a scruple is in the apothecaries' series of the English system, and is one third part of a apothecaries' dram. The word dram comes from the Greek word drachma, which was both a weight and a denomination of coinage. Perhaps it is from this connection that the idea came of its being a Greek coin.