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单词 coinage
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coinagen.

Brit. /ˈkɔɪnɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈkɔɪnɪdʒ/
Forms: see coin n. (also Middle English cunage, 1500s kownnage).
Etymology: < Old French coignaige, < coignier to coin v.1: see -age suffix.
1. (a) The action or process of coining money. (b) The right of coining money.
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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.
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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.
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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.
3. elliptical. (See quot. 1744) Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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