† copy-moneyn.
Obsolete.
Money paid to an author for his manuscript, or for copyright. (Cf. copy n. 9b.)
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun] > for use or publication of books, music, or play
copy-money1708
lordship1767
royalty1856
1708 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 13 Nov. What prospect is there of a bookseller for Barnabas, and on what proposals for copy~money and copies?
1782 J. Warton Ess. on Pope (new ed.) II. xiv. 471 In the year 1722, he received of a bookseller 120l for copy-money.
1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott xi A scale of book-selling transactions measured by which the largest editions and copy-monies of his own early days appeared insignificant.
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- imagination-mill
- imagination-monger
- imagination-stirring
- imagination-stunning
- imaginational
- imaginationconsciousness
- imaginationgame
- imaginationliberating
- imaginationmanufactured
- imaginationmill
- imaginationmonger
- imaginations
- imaginationstirring
- imaginationstunning
- imaginative
- imaginatively
- imaginativeness
- imaginativenesses
- imaginator
- imaginatory
- imagine
- imagined
- imagineer
- imagineered