Middle English Dictionary Entry
coināǧe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | coināǧe n. Also cunage, kuinage. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The act or process of coining money, mintage; (b) coll. currency, money; (c) official stamping (of tin blocks).
Associated quotations
a
- (1423) RParl.4.256b : Abatyng for the koynage xii d.
- (1423) RParl.4.258a : Wyth oute that he take ought of hym for the Coynage unto suche a somme and suche a tyme as is thought resonable for the commen ese.
- (1463) Statutes Ireland 3p.112 : The said Maister shall answer us of one plate of every suche pound so made for the coignage.
- (1469) Indent.Edw.IV in Archaeol.15165 : The kyng..hath taken and had for cunage of every lb. of Toure weght of gold..xx s. x d.
b
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)5481 : Þorȝout þy lond schal beo no page..þat he ne schel ȝelde til ous truwage, Four floryns of gold of god coygnage.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)4.2704 : How gret decepcioun is in fals coignage: The plate may be briht in his shewyng, The metal fals.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.Consulo (Hrl 2255)86 : Fortune to Alisaundir gaff a sodeyn Fal; The philosophre disposed his coignage.
- c1460(?c1435) Lydg.Let.Glo.(Hrl 2255)8 : For lak of plate and of coignage.
- (?1463) Paston (Gairdner)4.65 : That I may have..j c li. of gold after the old coynage.
- (1467) Paston (Gairdner)4.277 : I may no mor with owt coynage.
- c1480(1451) Demands Charles VII (Add 48031)140 : The king wol that the duc of Burgoigne .. make no kuynage ne myntis of golde ne silver withinne his landis withoute his leeve and licence.
c
- (1464) RParl.5.533b : The Office of Countrollership of oure Coynage of Tyn in oure Counties of Cornewayle and Devonshire.