Middle English Dictionary Entry
monei(e-māker(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | monei(e-māker(e n. |
| Etymology | From monei(e n. & māker(e n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A minter, moneyer; (b) a moneychanger, moneydealer; bordes of moneie-makeres, tables of moneychangers; (c) a counterfeiter; fals moneie makeres.
Associated quotations
a
- (1297) in G.Otto Handwerkernamen82 : Monye maker.
- -?-(1401) Reg.Freemen York in Sur.Soc.96104 : Joh. de Esynwald, monemaker.
- (1431) Will York in Sur.Soc.3016 : Ego, Johannes Esyngwald de Eboraco, monymakerr.
- a1450 Cat.Plays Yk.p.xxi : Monemakers.
- c1460 Oseney Reg.11/27 : Goodwyne, money-maker.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)82a : A Mony maker:..monitarius.
- -?-(1441) Reg.Freemen York in Sur.Soc.96157 : Willelmus Fulwod, monemaker.
b
- ?a1425(a1415) Wycl.Lantern (Hrl 2324)92/20 : Iesu..cast out alle sellars & biears in þe temple & þe bordis of mony-makears.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)1590 : There were stallis by þe strete stondyng for..Marchandes, Monymakers, Mongers of fyche.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)82a : Mony maker:..nummularius.
c
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)62/17 : Alle false monye-makerys, & false clypperys & wasscherys of monye.
- c1450 Lydg.KEng.(3) (BodAdd E.7)28 : He made a statute..That monymakers shuld lese her sight.
- a1500 Freers freers (Trin-C O.2.40)37 : Mony-makers I trow þei be, regis proditores.
- c1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)690 : Money makers, Stalkers by nyght..These were the comons came thedyr that day.