| 单词 | privy mark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprivy mark b. Peculiar to or characteristic of a particular individual, people, etc.; distinguishing, distinctive. Chiefly in privy mark: (spec. in Numismatics) a distinctive mark made in the manufacture of a coin (in later use frequently interpreted in sense A. 6).When applied to marks on the body sometimes hard to distinguish from sense A. 6a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [adjective] > belonging to a particular thing or person specialc1230 proper1340 peculiara1475 specifical?a1475 singular?a1513 private1526 privy1560 personed1565 individual1570 particular1582 idiotical1655 specific1665 sacred1667 specific1667 specifiala1670 idiomatic1771 idiomatical1774 appropriate1796 exclusive1804 propriate1820 especial1854 dedicated1969 1560 Summarie Certaine Reasons sig. A.ivv At the coynage of ye same base Testons..there were set therto certayn markes, as a Lion, a rose, a floure deluce, or a harp, called the priuie markes of such as weare then masters of the mint. 1611 W. Vaughan Spirit of Detraction iv. xii. 160 For proofe whereof, hee offered to disclose certaine priuie markes on her body. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. vii. 128 What art their Priests did use, to keep up the breed, and preserve succession of cattell with such γνωρίσματα, or privy marks, I list not to enquire. 1663–4 G. Fox Short Jrnl. 391 Goulde of the standard of 23 carrotts 3 graynes and a halfe taken out of the pixe, the privie marke being the feathers. 1780 W. Woods Twins: alt. from Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors ii. 35 [He] told me what privy Signs [a1616 Shakespeare priuie markes] I had about me; as the marks on my Shoulder, the Mole in my Neck, [etc.]. 1929 F. Hackett Henry VIII vi. 362 That Manox knew a privy mark on the Queen's body, and that Francis Derham had slept with her, was clearly something of which Katheryn's husband ought to be informed. 1962 Hesperia 31 148 The problem [of mint attribution] is less difficult than that of dating coins. The privy-marks have been recorded. 1984 Coin Monthly Jan. 43/1 Joly chose an owl as his privy mark, and this appeared on the 2 franc coins issued in 1958 and on the 1 and 2 francs of 1959. < as lemmas |
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