单词 | coinage |
释义 | coinagen. 1. (a) The action or process of coining money. (b) The right of coining money. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] coinagec1380 stroke1449 coining1483 forging1523 minting1548 mintagec1570 society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > right of coinagec1380 money power1829 c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 5481 Four floryns of gold of god coygnage. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxiiv Dampned certayne Coynes..and caused theym to be broughte vnto newe Coynage. 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 611 Fals forgers of mony for kownnage [1568 coinage] atteintid. 1594 H. Plat Jewell House 86 Ending in cosenage, quoinage, or Capistro. 1648 D. Jenkins Wks. Contents sig. A4 The power of coynadge in the King. 1724 J. Swift Some Observ. Wood's Half-pence 6 If this Coynage had been in Ireland,..and Granted to Persons of this Kingdom. 1869 J. G. Hubbard in Gold Coinage Controversy 31 If the mintage be sensibly increased beyond the cost of coinage, you provoke private coinage. 2. a. concrete. Coins collectively, coin; a system of coins in use or in currency; the currency. decimal coinage n. a system of coins, each denomination or named value of which is ten times that of the next smaller: see decimal adj. and n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] mintOE moneya1325 coin1393 ready money1429 plate?a1439 coinage1467 cunyec1480 cogc1555 table money1565 chinks1577 cash1596 speciesa1618 spetia1620 specie1671 coliander seed1699 coriander-seed1737 shiners1760 jinkc1775 decimal coinage1794 coriander1801 hard currency1816 rowdy1831 Oscar Asche1905 1467 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 535 Daube nor I may no mor wyth-owt coynage. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xxv. i. 366 Chaines of siluer..redie..to be melted into coinage. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iv. ii. 9 Ile answere the coynage . View more context for this quotation a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 69 Men make Vessels of coyned Silver, if they can gain by the Workmanship enough to defray the Destruction of the Coynage. 1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. App. iv. 471 They are often square, a shape of which there is no example in any other Grecian coinage. 1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. iii. v. 352 The Mint..is not permitted to issue more than a certain amount of silver coinage. 1891 N.E.D. at Coinage Mod. The bronze coinage was issued in 1860. b. Any currency or medium of exchange. Also figurative. ΚΠ a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 24 In the coinage of your golden smiles. 1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 305 The N. American Indians used to make coinage (wampum) of the sea-worn fragments of Venus mercenaria. ΚΠ 1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 179 A Law..called the Coinage. This was a certain Tax laid to pay for coining Money. 4. The official stamping of blocks of tin (see coin v.1 3); the right of doing this, formerly a privilege of certain towns in Cornwall and Devon. Also attributive as in coinage house, coinage town. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > mark of quality > [noun] > official stamping of metals coinage1495 hallmarking1879 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 4 §12 Weightis apperteynyng..to the Cunage of Tynne within the counties of Cornewall and Devonshire. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) III. 10 A good Market Toun having..Coinage twis a Yere for Tynne for Tynne Blokkes. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xxv. i. 365 There is also coignage of tin holden yearelie at..Midsummer and Michaelmas in the west countrie; which..I supposed to haue beene of monie of the said mettall..Howbeit..I find it to be nothing so, but an office onlie erected for the prince..and such blocks of tin as haue passed the hands of his officers, are marked with an especiall stampe. 1708 London Gaz. No. 4458/1 At the Coynage now held at Truroe. 1763 W. Borlase in Philos. Trans. 1752 (Royal Soc.) 52 507 The driver of a plough..laden with tin, for Penzance Coinage. 1811 Risdon's Chorogr. Surv. Devon (new ed.) Addit. 405 The Stannators.. were elected by the Mayors..of certain Towns..called Coinage Towns. 5. figurative. The (deliberate) formation of a new word, etc.; the fabrication of something specious. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > use or formation of new words or phrases > [noun] word-making1553 coininga1680 coinage1693 neoterism1794 neologism1796 neology1797 neologization1820 neonism1829 minting1841 neoterizing1873 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [noun] counterfeiturec1325 adulteration1502 sophistication1564 falsification1565 counterfeisance1590 forgery1594 fausonry1647 alchemisting1649 counterfacture1682 coinage1693 counterfeiting1697 faking1819 counterfeit1843 doctoring1963 1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. viii Unnecessary Coynage, as well as unnecessary Revival [of words], runs into Affectation. 1712 Proposals for printing Treat. Art of Political Lying 10 Whether the Right of Coinage of Political Lyes be wholly in the Government. 1787 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 1081/2 Milton..has enriched our language with some epithets..of his own coinage. 1818 S. T. Coleridge Gen. Introd. or Treat. on Method 23 in Encycl. Metrop. I The ancients, as well as the moderns, had their machinery for the extemporaneous coinage of intellect. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxv. 580 Words of modern coinage. 6. concrete. That which is made, devised, or invented, an invention; e.g. a coined word. (Often used disparagingly, in implied contrast with ‘current word’; cf. coin v.1 5.) ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > contriving or devising > that which is contrived, devised, or invented fantasyc1440 invention1546 coinage1604 devilment1855 the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > use or formation of new words or phrases > [noun] > new word or phrase mint-phrase1631 neologism1772 neoterism1794 neology1801 mintage1834 coinage1873 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 128 This is the very coynage of your braine. View more context for this quotation 1640 E. Dering Disc. Proper Sacrifice (1644) 67 Your last words..are..the coynage of your own brain. 1873 F. Hall Mod. Eng. 59 Why might not Spenser try his hand at coining a word? Landor himself has ventured new coinages enough. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. x. xlix. 462 Ἐθελοθρησκεία, a happy coinage of St. Paul's. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1380 |
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