new-coin
English
Alternative forms
- newcoin, 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:
- 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 newcoin 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.
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Derived terms
- new-coined
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