英语词汇“coiner”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

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coiner

释义

coiner|ˈkɔɪnə(r)|
Also 5 coynowre, quyner, 6 coynar, 6–8 -er, 7 quoyner.
[f. coin v. + -er¹.]
1. One who coins money; a minter.
c1440Promp. Parv. 90 Coynowre or coynesmytare, nummularius.1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) i. xxii. 58/1 Some ben monyours or moneye quyners.1590Greene Mourn. Garm. (1616) Pref. 4 Diogenes of a coyner of money became a Corrector of manners.1702Addison Dial. Medals i. 29 Designs that never entered into the thoughts of the sculptor or the Coiner.1861Dickens Gt. Expect. xxxii, A Coiner, a very good workman.
fig.1838Dickens Nich. Nick. x, The..longest-headed, queerest-tempered old coiner of gold and silver ever was.
2. esp. A maker of counterfeit coin.
1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 121 You ought..no more to bee agrieued with that whiche I haue saide, then the Mint Maister..to see the coyner hanged.1611Shakes. Cymb. ii. v. 5 Some Coyner with his Tooles Made me a counterfeit.1751Johnson Rambler No. 161 ⁋9 He found the tools of a coiner.1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 657 With precautions resembling those employed by coiners and forgers.
3. fig. An inventor; a deliberate or artful fabricator. Cf. coin v. 5.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 480 b, As though he and a few others were the first devisours and coyners of this Gospell.1605Camden Rem. 27 A Greeke coyner of Etymologyes.1718F. Hutchinson Witchcraft Ded. 11 Coiners of Fables.1824D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1858) III. 44 Swift..was a ready coiner of such rhyming and ludicrous proverbs.
†b. ? A dissembler, false pretender. Obs. rare.
1634S. R. Noble Soldier iv. i. in Bullen O. Pl. I. 307 Thinke you me a quoyner? No, no, thou art thy selfe still, Noble Baltazar.

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