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unˈcurrent, a.
[un-1 7.]
1. Of money: Not current; not in circulation.
1601Shakes. Twel. N. iii. iii. 16, I can no other answer make, but thankes, And thankes: and euer oft good turnes, Are shuffel'd off with such vncurrant pay. 1639S. Du Verger tr. Camus' Admir. Events a 3 It is a strange thing, that reasonable spirits can be payd with such counterfeit and uncurrant coyne. 1655tr. Sorel's Com. Hist. Francion ii. 39 My neighbours..cryed me down more than uncurrent Money. 1855W. Irving Washington lxii. II. 497 Paper money issued by Congress which was uncurrent among the Canadians. 1883Encycl. Brit. XVI. 484 After a certain amount of wear a gold coin..loses weight and becomes legally uncurrent.
fig.1618Fletcher Loyal Subj. ii. v, Thou crackt uncurrant Lord. 1646G. Daniel Poems Wks. (Grosart) I. 201 Such for vncurrant Knights or new-coyn'd Squire Might suite. 1827Pollok Course T. viii. 597 Honour..Bearing the signature of Time alone, Uncurrent in Eternity, and base!
2. Not commonly accepted or recognized.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. iii. ii. 50 Since he came, With what encounter so vncurrant, I Haue strayn'd t'appeare thus. 1639Ld. Digby, etc. Lett. conc. Relig. (1651) 77 Conceits of their own, and other uncurrent doctrines. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. ii. xiii. 233 'Tis hard..to be sure, that his present Repentance is not of the same ignoble and uncurrent kind.
3. Of a warrant: Having no legal force; invalid.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. v. §156 The Messenger would scarce have return'd to have reported how uncurrent such Warrants were like to be in York.
Hence unˈcurrentness.
1641Sir T. Roe Sp. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) IV. 457 Another cause of scarcity of coin, may be the over-strict rule of the uncurrentness of any good coin. |