remintv.
/ˌriːˈmɪnt/, U.S. /riˈmɪnt/ 1. transitive. To mint (a coin or coinage) again. Cf. recoin v. 1.
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society > trade and finance > money > coining > coin (money) [verb (transitive)] > recoin
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1696 E. Bohun Proposal raising Silver Coin of Eng. 8 When Queen Elizabeth had once refined and reminted that bad Mony, good Mony became so plentiful as the bad was before.
1732 tr. Chevalier De Piossens Mem. Regency Duke of Orleans (new ed.) 250 It was likewise order'd, that such Crowns as were to be reminted, should be taked on the first of January following for three Livres eighteen Sols and nine Deniers.
1896 E. R. P. Edgcumbe Pop. Fallacies Bimetallism 121 When the western nations of Europe agree again to remint silver upon a fixed ratio.
1938 Times 20 Dec. 11/2 The issue (of the new type of threepenny piece) was to be withdrawn and reminted because..a full stop had been used in the inscription instead of a colon.
2007 N. Lewis Gold v. 100 Over time metal coins wear down and lose their value..and they must be periodically reminted and returned to their original weight.
2. transitive. To reinvent or rework (a word, phrase, concept, etc.).
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1823 T. De Quincey Lett. Young Man in London Mag. July 91/2 In other cases, when there happen to exist double expressions for the same notion, he called in and reminted them, as it were.
1916 P. T. Forsyth Soul of Prayer 87 We are called..to a reconstruction of the old theology... We have to reappropriate and remint the truth of our experienced Christianity.
1990 R. Goldberg & G. J. Goldberg Anchors iv. 69 Freshly re-minted for the 1952 political conventions,..‘anchor’ was chosen to indicate that the person in the CBS news booth was the strongest member of the network's team.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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