单词 | coiner |
释义 | coinern. 1. One who coins money; a minter. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > coiner minterOE money-maker1297 forger1382 moneyera1400 coinerc1440 striker1449 printer1451 mintmaker1480 mintman1605 money coiner1742 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 90 Coynowre or coynesmytare, nummularius. 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. xxii. 58/1 Some ben monyours or moneye quyners. 1616 Greenes Mourning Garment To Rdr. sig. A4v Diogenes of a coyner of money became a Corrector of manners. a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. i. 448 Designs that never entered into the thoughts of the sculptor or the coiner. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. xiii. 218 A Coiner, a very good workman. 2. esp. A maker of counterfeit coin. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > counterfeiting > [noun] > person who falser1340 false-bullera1400 money-makerc1450 multipliera1500 counterfeiter1534 false-coiner1574 coiner1578 counterfeit1606 ben-feaker1612 venter1629 voucher1673 falsifiera1682 utterer1731 figure-dancer1796 boodler1872 paper-pusher1928 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 46v You ought..no more to bee agrieued with that which I haue sayde, then the mint Maister to see the coyner hanged. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. v. 5 Some Coyner with his Tooles Made me a counterfeit. View more context for this quotation 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 161. ⁋9 He found the tools of a coiner. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 657 With precautions resembling those employed by coiners and forgers. 3. a. figurative. An inventor; a deliberate or artful fabricator. Cf. coin v.1 5. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > contriving or devising > one who contrives or devises finderc1384 coiner1581 mint master1599 architectress1601 minter1603 inventioner1612 architector1639 contrivera1652 architect1788 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 480 b As though he and a few others were the first devisours and coyners of this Gospell. 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 27 A Greeke coyner of Etymologyes. 1718 F. Hutchinson Hist. Ess. conc. Witchcraft Ded. p. xi Coiners of Fables. 1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. I. 437 Swift..was a ready coiner of such rhyming and ludicrous proverbs. ΚΠ 1634 Noble Souldier iv. sig. Fv Thinke you me a quoyner? No, no, thou art thy selfe still, Noble Baltazar. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1440 |
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