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单词 seigniorage
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seigniorageseignoragen.

Brit. /ˈseɪnjərɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈseɪnjərɪdʒ/
Forms: Also 1500s s(e)ignowrage, 1700s seignourage, signiorage, Middle English, 1800s seigneurage.
Etymology: < Old French seignorage, seigneurage (modern French has seigneuriage ), < seigneur : see seigneur n., seignior n., and -age suffix. Compare Italian signoraggio.
1. Lordship, dominion. Obsolete.
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society > authority > [noun] > chief authority or dominion
ealdordomeOE
lord-domeOE
lordshipeOE
aldershipOE
danger?c1225
seignioryc1290
demesnec1300
lordheada1325
lordshippingc1384
dominationc1386
subjectiona1393
signory?a1425
dominionc1430
signority1525
seigniority1596
dynasty1613
seigniorage1656
1656 in T. Blount Glossographia
1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 5 353 Opinions of hereditary right..must either be allowed to establish their superstitions (the monarchy or seigniorage of certain families),..or must be coerced in the exercise of their claims.
1820 J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours (ed. 2) 47 Her [Europe's] throne has been an armed seignorage.
2. A duty levied on the coining of money for the purpose of covering the expenses of minting, and as a source of revenue to the crown, claimed by the sovereign by virtue of his prerogative.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun] > of coining
seigniorage1444
mintage1645
moneyage1747
1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 109/1 Wherof our Soverein Lord to have and take for his Seigneurage vii d in nombre.
1543 tr. Act 9 Hen. V Stat. ii. c. 2 Payeng ye seignowrage & cunage of golde after the rate of .v.s. for the pounde of the tower.
1543 tr. Act 9 Hen. V Stat. ii. c. 2 With the signowrage and coynage as afore is sayde.
1658 in E. Phillips New World Eng. Words
1695 J. Locke Further Considerations conc. Raising Value of Money 84 This at least they were not mistaken in, that they brought Work to the Mint, and a Part of the Money coined to the Crown for Seigniorage.
1797 Monthly Mag. 3 352 Delivering out, without deduction for seignorage, duty, workmanship, or even waste, the full value of all bullion brought in to be coined.
1805 Earl of Liverpool Treat. Coins Realm 102 Augmentation of revenue was expected from the additional profits, which would in such case arise, from the right of Seigneurage.
1880 Del Mar Hist. Prec. Metals 125 The royalties, seignorages, convoy-duties, and other impositions..which the Portuguese monarchs levied upon the gold product of Brazil.
1885 Manch. Examiner 7 Apr. 4/5 The proposal often made of deducting a seigniorage from the intrinsic value of the coinage.
1891 Daily News 6 Nov. 3/5 Any profit which the State gets from note circulation, seigneurage, and the like.
3. A duty claimed by the over-lord upon the output of certain minerals, a royalty.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun] > of taking minerals
sand-mail1287
lot-leada1483
lot1630
cope1631
sand-gavel1663
lordship1767
gale1775
tribute1778
royalty1839
groundage1852
seignioragea1859
galeage1881
a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. xxv. 265 With that domain they had as little to do as with the seignorage levied on tin in the Duchy of Cornwall.
4. Alleged to signify: ‘Profit’ (Webster 1847–54); ‘The money paid on a copyright by a publisher to an author’ (Webster 1864, marked ‘Eng.’). Cf. lordship n. 6, royalty n. 10c.

Compounds

seigniorage fine n. Obsolete a royalty paid to the over-lord in return for the concession of a privilege.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun]
tollc1000
trewagec1380
trowc1380
finec1436
seigniorage fine1800
1800 H. Cox in Asiatick Researches 6 132 Perhaps a signiorage fine to government for permission to sink a new well.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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