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minter|ˈmɪntə(r)|
Forms: 1 mynetere, mynytere, (Northumb. mynittre), 2 menetere, minitere, 3–4 munetere, 4–5 mynter, 6– minter.
[OE. mynetere = OS. *munitari (MDu., Du. munter), OHG. munizzâri, a. L. monētārius, f. monēta: see money. The modern word may partly descend from OE., and partly be an independent formation on mint v.2 + -er1.]
†1. Used to render L. nummularius (‘money-changer’). Obs.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxi. 12, xxv. 27, etc. c1000Ags. Gosp. ibid. c1300Life Jesu 853 (Horstm.) And Muneteres also þat oncouþe Men miȝten moneie finde.
2. One who coins or stamps money; a moneyer.
c1000ælfric Hom. (Th.) II. 554 Godes feoh..bið befæst myneterum to sleanne. a1131O.E. Chron. an. 1125 Man scolde beniman ealle þa minitere þe wæron on Engle lande heora liman. 1423Rolls of Parlt. IV. 256/2 margin, Mynters and Goldsmithes. 1549Latimer Ploughers (Arb.) 27 Since priests haue bene minters, money hath bene wourse then it was before. 1605–6Act 3 Jas. I, c. 27 §9 Other Officers Minters and Workemen..in any the Kinges Majesties Mintes. 1780Noble Mint & Coins Durham 3 They..employed the same Minters as Edward the Confessor. 1828–40Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 278 Foreigners appear to have been the great coiners or minters of those times.
transf.a1631Donne Serm. (1640) vii. 62 God stamped his Image upon us, and so God is..our Minter, our Statuary.
3. fig. An inventor; a deliberate fabricator; = coiner n. 3.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. xi. 242 O generation of fictitious Mynters! who knows not that Apollo is a Deity Errant. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. vii. 11 A most prodigious Minter of Exorbitant Novelties. 1818in Todd.
†4. [A distinct word, f. mint n.1 + -er1.] A resident in the precincts of the ancient Mint in Southwark, once a reputed sanctuary for debtors. Obs.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Rum-dukes, the boldest Fellows amongst the Alsatians, Minters, Savoyards, &c. 1706Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 20 The riotous proceedings of the minters in Southwark. 1723Weekly Jrnl. 20 July, The Southwark Mint..got to be such a pest, that special statutes..were passed ordering the abolition... The exodus of the..train of ‘Minters’..included some thousands. |