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

Additional info about word: COINAGE

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.
• METALLOGRAPH
  A print made by metallography.
• CONVERTIBLY
  In a convertible manner.
• 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.
• BIMETALLIST
  An advocate of bimetallism.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• 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.