twelvepennyadj.n.

/ˈtwɛlvpəni/

Now rare.

A. adj.

1. Of the value of, or amounting to, twelvepence. †twelvepenny piece, a shilling (obsolete).

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > shilling

s.1387

solidus?a1475

shilling1533

teston1543

twelvepence1563

bord1567

twelvepenny piece1594

sh.1607

hog1673

twelver1699

she-lion1744

grunter1785

twalpenny worth1786

bob1789

pega1790

tower shilling1800

little shilling1826

deaner1839

rogue and villain1857

stag1857

hole1934

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises i. vii. f. 10^v vii. twelue pennie peeces of Siluer.

1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 249. ⁋1 The Adventures that this Twelvepenny-Piece has been engaged in.

1712 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 99 Done for the base Lucre of a Six-penny or Twelve-penny Fee.

2. Costing or priced at twelvepence; for or in connection with which a shilling is paid or payable.

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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [adjective] > specific prices

sixpenny1591

fourpenny1597

eight-penny1598

twelvepenny1609

six-shilling1631

ninepenny1632

seven1643

threepenny1698

sevenpenny1712

fivepenny1799

shilling gallery1801

1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. B1^v When at a new play you take vp the twelue-penny roome next the stage.

1616 B. Jonson Epicœne ii. v, in Wks. I. 550 At the tweluepeny ordinary.

1692 J. Dryden All for Love (new ed.) Pref. sig. b4 This Rhyming Judge of the Twelve-penny Gallery.

1712 London Gaz. No. 4988/3 The Twelvepeny Stamps prescrib'd by Law for Ale-house-Licenses.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. iii. 56 A Bit of Bread..as big as two twelvepenny Loaves.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. Pref. p. xv A twelve-penny Pamphlet would contain full as much.

1814 J. Shirreff Gen. View Agric. Shetland 21 Rent is paid by the merk of land,..an indefinite quantity..of ground; merks being divided into different classes, such as sixpenny, ninepenny, and twelvepenny merks.

3. That may be hired for twelvepence; paying, or receiving, twelvepence.

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1620 J. Melton Astrologaster 31 The twelve-penny Hirelings made artificiall Lightning.

1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre v. vi. 87 in Wks. II Thou Esquire of Dames, Madams, and twelue-penny Ladies.

1683 J. Bunyan Greatness of Soul in Wks. (1853) I. 132 More vigilant in dealing with a twelvepenny customer than they will be with Christ.

1707 London Gaz. No. 4296/3 The Out-Pensioners (commonly called the Twelve-Penny Pensioners).

4. figurative. Of small value, paltry, insignificant.

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twelvepenny1604

1604 in T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. (1655) x. 23 That men be not excommunicated for trifles, and twelve-peny matters.

B. n.

Scottish (in form twalpenny). A twelvepenny piece, a shilling (Scots): see shilling n. 1b. Hence twalpenny worth = twelve pennyworth.

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