Word Finder - coined

definition

To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.

example

to coin a medal

synonyms

• manufacture
• mint

definition

(by extension) To make or fabricate.

example

Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined.

synonyms

• invent
• originate

definition

To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

Silver was coined in the island of Aegina soon afterwards.

Osawatomie was settled about 1854 by colonists sent by the Emigrant Aid Company, and was platted in 1855 its name was coined from parts of the words "Osage" and "Pottawatomie."

The production in Rutherford and Burke counties and their vicinity was so great, and transportation to the United States Mint at Philadelphia so difficult, that from 1831 to 1857 gold was privately coined in I, 22 and 5 dollar pieces bearing the mark of the coiner " C. Bechtler, Rutherford county, N.C."

At this time the podestd's palace (the Bargello) was built, and the gold florin was first coined and soon came to be accepted as the standard gold piece throughout Europe.

The provincial mints were all closed just before the reign of Mary, who coined in London only.

The amount of gold in standard ounces (916.6 fine) corresponding to the " imported " bullion is thus ascertained, and on the application of the importer the gold is coined and delivered to him in the form of sovereigns and half-sovereigns at the rate of £3, 17s.

Bars from which sovereigns are to be coined are 22 in.

In the hope of relieving his financial difficulties, the king erected a mint, where money was coined of the "worst kind of old brass, guns and the refuse of metals, melted down together," of the nominal value of £1,568,800, with which his troops were paid, and tradesmen were compelled to receive it under penalty of being hanged in case of refusal.

A shilling is token money merely, it is nominally in value the one-twentieth of a pound, but one troy pound of silver is coined into sixty-six shillings, the standard weight of each shilling being 87.27 grains.

The first introduction of coined money is ascribed to Servius Tullius.

Half and fifth pounds are also coined.

In Australia, the United States, Japan and some other countries, the Mints receive unrefined gold from the mines and refine it before it is coined.

A bill went through both Houses of Congress providing that a silver dollar should be coined of the weight of 4122 grains, to be full legal tender for all debts and dues, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract.

It is curious that Tibet, though using coined money, seems never, strictly speaking, to have had a coinage of its own.

The work of Bible translation has been particularly long and difficult; for the innumerable peoples who did not speak some form of Arabic the languages had first to be reduced to writing, and many Christian terms had to be coined.

Another fund, of about 5,200,000, serves for the construction and armament of fortresses; while 6,000,000, known as the Reichskriegsschatzor war treasure fund is not laid out at interest, butis stored in coined gold and bullion in the Juliusturm at Spandau.

The Egyptian pound is practically nonexistent, nearly all that were coined having been withdrawn from circulation.

But the early coins that have been found there are mainly Greek, and especially Athenian, and it was not until the introduction of a regular currency in the three metals under the Ptolemies that much use was made of coined money.

The word was coined by Demiscianus, a Greek scholar, at the request of Federigo Cesi, founder of the Accademia dei Lincei, from the Greek ri XE, far, and ovoirEUU, to see.

This potentate called himself "king of kings," commanded an army and a fleet, coined money, adopted Greek as the official language, and lived on good terms with the Roman empire.

The essential questions that are involved are so old that historians commonly speak of the "Eastern Question" in reference to events that happened long before the actual phrase was coined.

Hajjaj coined silver dirhems at Kufa in 694.

It coined silver and copper during the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. The name Kaffa (Genoese Capha, Turkish Kefe) first occurs in a writer of the 9th century.

Substances which were comparatively transparent to heat he designated by the adjective "diathermane," the property being "diathermanate," while for the heattint or heat-coloration produced by passage through different materials he coined the word "diathermansie."

Horned cattle constituted the chief wealth of the country, and were the standard for estimating the worth of anything, for the Irish had no coined money and carried on all commerce by barter.

It is confusing, but not uninstructive, to find that within the Balanid group such generic titles as Stephanolepas and Platylepas have been coined.

Whoever coined the phrase "Familiarity breeds contempt" must have gone that route.

New words are constantly being coined, some will prove ephemeral, others are here to stay.

Chris first coined the phrase "the long tail" in the 2004 Wired article by the same name.

The term Ajax was coined last February to describe a combination of Web technologies, including JavaScript and XML.

For Lassalle, who coined the aphorism on science and the proletariat, science, like the state, stands above the class struggle.

To use a few well chosen words, coined by some animal expert no doubt, I have been quite the busy beaver.

The word cyberpunk was coined by writer Bruce Bethke, who wrote a story with that title in 1982.

The term cyberpunk was first coined by Bruce Bethke in his short story Cyberpunk published in 1983.

The phrase " virtual reality, " coined by Jaron Lanier (3 ), is more generic than the term cyberspace.

The term was coined by the sociolinguist Labov to describe how people feel about their language variety when it is constantly denigrated.

I've always been a big fan of the pathetic fallacy, unlike Ruskin, who coined the term.

The term hydroponics was originally coined in the mid 20th Century.

In 1842, he coined the term dinosaur (from the Greek for " terrible lizard " ).

The term ' meme ' was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 bestseller The Selfish Gene.

I once coined the overstatement ` labor migration is the engine of social change ' .

I assume this is more of a problem with regard to artificially coined neologisms than with words from the spoken language.

She didn't know what was wrong, but she coined my parting ' the parting of the red sea ' .

Biodiversity is the word coined by the zoologist E. O. Wilson to summarize the phrase biological diversity.

The term ' biodiversity ' was coined by the American zoologist Edward O. Wilson and is an abbreviation of ' biological diversity ' .

Against the first kind of argument, as formulated by Moses Mendelssohn, Kant advances the objection that, although we may deny the soul extensive quantity, division into parts, yet we cannot refuse to it intensive quantity, degrees of reality; and consequently its existence may be terminated not by decomposition, but by gradual diminution of its powers (or to use the term he coined for the purpose, by elanguescence).

Moneys due to a provincial governor from the state treasury were often, perhaps regularly, received and disbursed by the quaestor; the magazines seem to have been under his charge; he coined money, on which not unfrequently his name appears alone.

In the English Mint the pyx is the chest in which are placed one coin from every 15 lb of newly coined gold and one from every 60 lb of newly coined silver to await the "trial of the pyx" (see Mint).

The term ' biodiversity ' was coined by the American zoologist Edward O. Wilson and is an abbreviation of ' biological diversity '.

In 1966, the Philadelphia Police Department coined the phrase to describe their attitude toward the crowds of shoppers and traffic jams that occur on the day after Thanksgiving.