coined, ppl. a.
(kɔɪnd)
[f. coin v. + -ed1.]
1. Minted, made into coin; in the form of coin.
| c 1400 Test. Love i. (1560) 278 b/1 The value of the least coigned plate. 1678 J. Phillips tr. Tavernier's Trav., India i. ii. 18 If you carry coin'd gold, the best pieces are Jacobus's, Rose-nobles, Albertus's. 1745 De Foe's Eng. Tradesman xlv. (1841) II. 165 Copper, in coined plates. 1846 Grote Greece (1862) I. xx. 493 Coined money is unknown to the Homeric age. |
2. fig. Fabricated, deliberately invented, made up; see the verb.
| 1583 Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 29 His syb..with long coynd forgerye feeding. 1593 Shakes. Lucr. 1073, I will not..fold my fault in cleanly coin'd excuses. a 1647 Sir R. Filmer Patriarcha i. §1 The new coined distinction of subjects into royalists and patriots. 1881 Skeat Etymol. Dict., Oxygen..is a coined word. |