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Word Meanings - COINAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or process of converting metal into money. The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot. 2. Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place. 3. The cost or expense of coining money. 4. The act or process

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1. The act or process of converting metal into money. The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot. 2. Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place. 3. The cost or expense of coining money. 4. The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged. "Unnecessary coinage . . . of words." Dryden. This is the very coinage of your brain. Shak.

Related words: (words related to COINAGE)

  • METALOGICAL
    Beyond the scope or province of logic.
  • COINDICATION
    One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
  • CONVERTIBILITY
    The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
  • PLACEMENT
    1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
  • METALLIC
    Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
  • INFERIORLY
    In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
  • PLACENTARY
    Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
  • PLACE-KICK
    To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
  • PROCESSIVE
    Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
  • COINER
    1. One who makes or stamps coin; a maker of money; -- usually, a maker of counterfeit money. Precautions such as are employed by coiners and receivers of stolen goods. Macaulay. 2. An inventor or maker, as of words. Camden.
  • METALLIFORM
    Having the form or structure of a metal.
  • COINHERE
    To inhere or exist together, as in one substance. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • PROCESSIONALIST
    One who goes or marches in a procession.
  • MONEYER
    1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
  • METALLIFACTURE
    The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park.
  • CONVERTIBLY
    In a convertible manner.
  • METALLOGRAPH
    A print made by metallography.
  • COMMITTAL
    The act of commiting, or the state of being committed; commitment.
  • COINSTANTANEOUS
    Happening at the same instant. C. Darwin.
  • COINCIDENCY
    Coincidence.
  • INCONVERTED
    Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
  • REPLACEMENT
    The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
  • RECONVERTIBLE
    Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
  • BIMETALLIST
    An advocate of bimetallism.
  • NONMETAL
    Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.
  • UNCONVERTED
    1. Not converted or exchanged. 2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter.
  • ACID PROCESS
    That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.

 

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