Middle English Dictionary Entry
mint(e n.(3)
Entry Info
| Forms | mint(e n.(3) Also (WM) munet, (K) menet. |
| Etymology | OE mynet, from L. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Coinage, money, a coin; also fig.; (b) a place where legal money is coined, mint; maister of the ~, the chief officer of a royal mint.
Associated quotations
a
- c1225(OE) Wor.Aelfric Gloss.(Wor F.174)539 : Num[i]sma: munet.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)241/27 : Pouerte is þet menet [Vices & V.(2): moneie] huermide me bayþ þe riche of heuene.
- (1421) Statutes Realm2.210 : Item, qe la mynte du Roi soit cunez & fait a Caleis en manere come ad estee fait.
- (c1426) Audelay Poems (Dc 302)84/85 : Þou plecyst God more specyaly Þen a þowsond hillis of gold..Were made in mynt and in money.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.1069 : If me..mynt for hem [sows] reseyue, The sonder [read: sonner] wol they brymme ayen.
- a1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2:Peacock)1663 : Sende forth..to þe byschop..Clypper of þe kynges mynt.
- a1500(c1465) SEChron.(Lamb 306)54 : The same yere the kynge lete smyte a newe mynte, the noble lesse wight than the olde noble by halfe apeny wight of gold.
b
- (1423) RParl.4.275a : If the Maister of the mynte..have offended in his office of the seid mynt, that thanne he be corrected and justified by the commune lawe..the Maistre of the Mynte woll resceyve no manere of Silver but if it be better thanne the olde Sterlyng.
- (1429) RParl.4.359a : Your mynte at Caleis is like to stande voide.
- (1443) Proc.Privy C.5.222 : Þe iijde parte of þe sale..shuld be brought in bullyon to oure mynte of Calais.
- (1469) Indent.Edw.IV in Archaeol.15165 : The kyng..hath taken and had for cunage of every lb. of Toure weght of gold which hath be coyned withynne his myntes in his reaume of England..xx s. x d.
- a1500 ECom.Policy (Lnsd 796)113 : And þer were a myntte ordeynyd ny þerby.