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unˈminted, ppl. a.
(un-1 8. Cf. Da. umyntet.)
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. 164 [She] caused the value of fortie thousand Angels in Bullion, vnminted,..to be sent. 1636E. Pagitt Christianogr. (ed. 2) ii. 40 The Treasury of merits was unminted. 1739G. Ogle Gualtherus & Griselda 87 Virtue, in low, is an unminted Mine. 1845Petrie Round Towers Irel. 215 The precious metals were used as a circulating medium in large unminted pieces. 1881A. J. Duffield Don Quixote II. 402 To rail on the lightness of women,..their unminted promises. |