new-coin

English

Alternative forms

newcoin, new coin

Etymology

From new- +‎ coin.

Verb

new-coin (third-person singular simple present new-coins, present participle new-coining, simple past and past participle new-coined)

(transitive, obsolete) To coin afresh.
- 1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act IV, scene v, page 58:
  Item, I Article, that you continue to like your own Face, as long as I ſhall. And while it paſſes Current with me, that you endeavour not to new Coin it.
- 1969, Horace Maybray King, Before Hansard: A Quaint Collection of Curious Details from the Story of the Mother of Parliaments, page 47:
  Resolved, That the best way to prevent clipping the silver coin of this kingdom for the future is, to new-coin the same into milled money.

Derived terms

new-coined

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