mint mastern.
/ˈmɪntˌmɑːstə/, /ˈmɪntˌmastə/, U.S. /ˈmɪntˌmæstər/ 1. A person in charge of coinage, as at a mint; spec. = Master of the Mint n. at master n.1 23a(i).
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society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > coiner > officers of the mint
Master of the Coin1423
Master of the Mint1423
Warden of the Mint1463
Usher of the Coins, Change, or Exchange1485
melter1511
mint master1528
Surveyor of the Melting (also Meltings)1556
clerk of the irons1566
master-worker1622
1528 in Lett. & Papers Henry VIII IV. ii. 1723 Th'artycles that we ben sworn to consernyng the mynt maysters.
1552 King Edward VI Chron. & Polit. Papers (1966) (modernized text) 123 The mint master..should go to the mines and see what profit may be taken of the ore.
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 279 The principall Officer is the Warden of the Mint; next is the Mint-master.
1649 Man in Moon 28 May–5 June 74 Dr. Gourdon their new Mint-master is much taken with his place.
1786 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 4) I. i. 15 Of William is a curious seal, as Mint-master.
1845 P. J. Selby in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 13. 160 (note) In Æthelred's mint were upwards of forty mintmasters.
1879 H. Phillips Addit. Notes upon Coins 14 The daughter of the mint-master stood in one scale while her weight in Massachusetts shillings was poured into the other for her dowry.
1970 A. W. Coysh Antique Buyer's Dict. Names xvii. 262 He became Mint-master in 1652 and coined the first Massachusetts shillings.
1995 Independent on Sunday 19 Mar. 1/4 The committee of EU ‘mint masters’..is believed to include Roger Holmes, controller of Britain's Royal Mint.
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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
the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > use or formation of new words or phrases > [noun] > one who
mint master1599
logodaedalus1611
logodaedalist1727
neologist1785
neoterist1872
verbarian1873
1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered ix. 30 The graund Mintmaster of learning in our age.
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 21 The odde coinage of your phrase, which no mintmaister of language would allow for sterling.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 102 No disgrace is imported in the notation of the word Conventicle... However Custome (the sole mint-master of currant words) hath took of Conventicles from signifying a small number, to denote [etc.].
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. x. 240 The great Mint-Masters of these kind of Terms, I mean the Schoolmen and Metaphysicians.
1852 R. C. Trench Study of Words (ed. 3) iv. 112 Sometimes indeed such a skilful mintmaster of words, such a subtle watcher and weigher of their forces as he [sc. Cicero] was, will note..an omission.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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