How To Use Coinage In A Sentence
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Since the late recoinage of the gold, however, it is believed to have been a good deal under-rated.
I. Book IV. Of the Principle of the Commercial or Mercantile System
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Although Time's editors were not in every instance necessarily responsible for the logodaedaly ascribed to them: the magazine served as the medium through which these coinages became known to millions.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1
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When the word ‘scientist’ was first spoken in 1833, it was meant as a joke: its coinage first drew laughs and later was attacked as ‘an American barbarous trisyllable.’
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This kind of coinage and derivation is a typical process in the creative evolution of language, and is exactly the sort of thing that snoots like to deprecate.
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However, a bimetallic monetary system of coinage was also established by the Constitutional mandate to Congress to ‘coin Money, regulate the Value thereof’.
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He also attempted to fine tune the money supply with mintage of new gold coinage and adulterated silver coins.
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Trade Viticulture was also important to the economy of many cities, as is shown by the number of states whose coinage bears wine-related designs.
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Acquiring gold and silver was vital for coinage and, in the late Empire, for official payments in plate and ingots.
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As a psychological phenomenon, physiognomic perception has profound effects upon words' evolvement including coinage, word formation, and change of word meaning.
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The moral is obvious, and as old as history; but herein lay the secret of Byron's potency, that he could remint and issue in fresh splendour the familiar coinage of the world's wit.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
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It was a gamble that paid off in the most golden of coinage when Fletcher netted the play-off clincher four minutes later.
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Pointing to a drawing of the old Scotch bawbee, Professor Geddes said it was not a very dignified symbol of the coinage of the world, but let them mark how it had on the one side the hammerman at his work, with his motto "_Beat deus artem_," and, on the other side, a larger legend, with the eagle of the empire and the lamb of Saint John.
Civics: as Applied Sociology
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The website, where you can register newly coined words, accepted the coinage by a journalist based at Muvattupuzha.
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In the United States, the Coinage Act of 1873 officially demonetized silver, legally confirming a gold-based currency that - because of silver's relatively high price - was already the de facto standard.
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That's a recent coinage, something dreamt up in the past few months to explain away something many of us had feared for some time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Coinage: software, the opposite of “hard” with the combining form -ware.
No Uncertain Terms
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Silver, specie suspended mines discovered demonetized remonetized certificates free coinage of movement party
A School History of the United States
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This was the second issue of decimal coinage and the series continued during the reigns of King Rama VI, VII and VIII.
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Greek cities kept Greek municipal law and issued their own coinage.
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The involvement of the competent authority is thus essential to the existence and nature of any coinage system.
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Best known as the maker of the state's first coinage, issuing shillings, sixpence, and threepence silver coins in 1783, Chalmers's marked domestic silver is exceedingly rare.
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The term ‘bling’ - the new slang coinage for the flash of all those carats - has even (for better or for worse) passed into the language.
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Processes of analogy have created coinages like petrodollar, psycho-warfare, microwave on such models as petrochemical, psychology, microscope.
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Because the existing word hypnagogic means “of, relating to, or occurring in the state of intermediate consciousness preceding sleep,” and hypnopompic means “of or relating to the partially conscious state that precedes complete awakening from sleep,” many people came up with hyp - coinages.
Word Fugitives
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Offsetting the lift in the proposed new funding agreement will be substantial savings accruing from the modernisation of the silver coinage, as well as some smaller efficiency gains.
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The Empire set up a large number of independent local mints that were authorized subject to some degree of imperial oversight to mint coinage more or less without restriction.
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A new coinage, based on the denarius, was introduced in 211.
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By counterfeit coinage was meant not so much the striking of imitations from base metal (for which there is in fact very little extant evidence) as coins struck in mints not controlled by the king.
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The antonym to tight is not ‘loose’ - logic has no place in the coinage of neologisms - but janky, also spelled and pronounced jinky or jainky.
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Market places have existed since that time, and coinage has been in circulation among urban people for 2500 years.
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He established a gold coinage of 72 solidi to the pound, but the other coinage continued to depreciate.
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In 1896, the Democratic party coopted an aspect of the Populists' financial program, the free and unlimited coinage of silver, on behalf of the candidacy of William Jennings Bryan.
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The word universal appears to be an Aristotelian coinage.
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Counterfeiting or clipping the coinage was regarded as a heinous crime.
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This was a complicated procedure because there were so many separate political entities, from city-states to empires, each having its own coinage with different weights and different contents of precious metal.
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Having fun with words can involve creative rhymes (“I do not roister with an oyster”) and nonce coinages (“my family was a scribacious lot”).
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Italy there were so many forms of government, dukedoms, baronies, marquisates, signories, city republics, each with its own custom regulations, not to speak of each having its own coinage and language, that travelers encountered obstacles almost at every step.
Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920
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There was usually a fixed rate of exchange between the two coinages, though this was upset when opium poured in and silver flowed out, causing a scarcity of the latter.
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Simultaneously with this, we pushed ahead on a similar activity designed to remove nickel from the armament class or a material used in comparatively small amounts in nickel silver, plating, coinage and nickel steel into a metal of universal application.
Factors in Developing a Mineral Deposit
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Coinage was at a very early stage in all parts of Britain and Ireland during the ninth to eleventh centuries.
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There come into this problem two chief questions: First, who shall pay the expense of the recoinage?
The Mississippi Bubble
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In his report to the hearing, the curator in early medieval coinage, Dr Gareth Williams, said it was a gold tremissis bearing the image of the Byzantine emperor, Anastasius the First.
Gold Pendant Discovered by Metal Detectorist
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The conspirators were supported by the French, and even though the raid on the Exchequer failed, considerable quantities of forged coinage were smuggled into England and put into circulation to disrupt the financial system.
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The French King preferred having recourse to a recoinage.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
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The friends of free coinage stoutly asserted that this purchase of silver bullion would not only prevent its depreciation, but would advance its market value, and thus be a gain to the government.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
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Although manteau = cloak and portmanteau = carry + cloak, "portmanteau word" was a coinage by Lewis Carroll, to refer to words like "chortle" chuckle + snort and so called because it resembled the Gladstone bag style of portmanteau, which has two equal compartments that fasten together in the middle.
Making Light: Open thread 136
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All our coinage, even our notes, diminish in size in proportion to what you can buy with it.
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The coinage stored there was the most complete collection that had ever existed in any one place in the world.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS
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Contemporaneously the coinage in Spain was 34 cuartos to one peseta and 5 pesetas to one _duro_ -- the coin nominally equivalent to the peso -- but the duro being subdivided into 20 _reales vellon_, the colonial real fuerte came to be equivalent to 2 1/2 reales vellon.
The Philippine Islands
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If this were the correct derivation, we should expect to find _sinecere_, for the _e_ would scarcely be dropped; just as we have the English word _sinecure_, which is the only compound of the preposition _sine_ I know; and is itself _not a Latin word_, but of a later coinage.
Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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How much control, and what sort of control, was exercised by dynasts over the coinage of polities under their sway?
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This provided a defensive stronghold for the Prince Bishops of Durham, who for centuries ruled the area with their own armies, courts and coinage.
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Metals like silver, nickel and gold are a perfect medium for coinage because of their durability and the value accorded by their relative rarity.
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Commercial development had encouraged the localized minting of silver in the Irish Sea region from the late tenth century, but the circulation of Hiberno-Norse coinage was restricted to eastern Ireland and other coastal parts.
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This kind of coinage and derivation is a typical process in the creative evolution of language, and is exactly the sort of thing that snoots like to deprecate.]
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The grant of a patent in 1723 to the Birmingham ironmaster William Wood, to produce copper coinage for Ireland, raised an outcry in the Dublin press, and violent popular demonstrations.
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The growth of electronics and communication mediated by computers has given rise to great numbers of coinages, many of them fleeting, all seeking to describe the adaptation of such techniques to some aspect of daily life.
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England, was at this very time addressing himself to the question of a recoinage of the specie of the realm of England.
The Mississippi Bubble
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In the 1890s the Populist movement demanded stronger government intervention into the economy, including the free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of sixteen to one.
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The weight of the copper coinage is incredible so no fear of sneak thieves running off with it!
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This is borne out by empirical research (e.g Olsen 1999) CLI researchers tend to classify Lexical transfer as misspellings, borrowings, coinage and calque.
E is for Error « An A-Z of ELT
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It was an active centre of mining, and became a stannary or coinage town.
The Cornwall Coast
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This coinage has often provoked the accusation that nothing is really being asserted in the argument for natural selection: since fitness can only be defined by survival the phrase is a tautology.
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He also attempted to fine tune the money supply with mintage of new gold coinage and adulterated silver coins.
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It was not the intention of the framers of this law to demonetize silver, because they were openly avowed bimetallists, but it limited coinage to silver bought by the government at market price.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
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A recoinage was ordered, by which the currency was depreciated one-fifth; those who took a thousand pieces of gold or silver to the mint received back an amount of coin of the same nominal value, but only four-fifths of the weight of metal.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
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There's probably no more irksome character than the humble hyphen, and though I'd love to develop a devil-may-care attitude toward it (got the bugger right that time, I reckon!), my newest coinage is hyphenhate, so you can guess just how I feel after 39713 of them and still counting.
Archive 2009-04-01
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So went the decade, with the international bimetallists and gold men unable to halt limited silver coinage and the free coinage men unable to remove the limitations.
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By claiming power under the coinage clause, Mr. Bernanke was behaving a bit like Secretary of State Alexander Haig when, after President Ronald Reagan was shot, he suggested, albeit fleetingly, that he had the constitutional authority of the president.
A Constitution Scholar for the Fed
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Contemporaneously the coinage in Spain was 34 cuartos to one peseta and 5 pesetas to one _duro_ -- the coin nominally equivalent to the peso -- but the duro being subdivided into 20 _reales vellon_, the colonial real fuerte came to be equivalent to 2 1/2 reales vellon.
The Philippine Islands
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Secondly, in 1971 the whole coinage was decimalized in preparation for Britain's entry into the EEC.
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I haven't heard that expression before is it a recent coinage?
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an attempt to eliminate the base coinage
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Then, as now, the change in coinage was politically sensitive because the public had expressed dissatisfaction with lightweight British copper coins.
Liberty Cap Cent, 1793-1796 : Coin Guide
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His monetary analysis is hopelessly contaminated by the attempt to explain the variations in the relative value of the copper, silver and gold coinage by a political sociology.
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Its platform called for the free coinage of silver and plenty of paper money.
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Listen to Jacques Barzun: The fallacy behind perpetual recoinage ... is to suppose that words must describe instead of stand for and evoke.
Archive 2006-03-01
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Second, the method makes no allowance for the loss of coinage from circulation.
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When asked to explain the morality of charges for other essential banking services such as standing orders, reminder letters and changing bags of loose coinage, he declined to answer.
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Having got a rough idea of how the coinage worked, we need to work out how much that was worth in modern terms.
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Robot is a word that is both a coinage by an individual person and a borrowing.
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Some familiar words, like punch line and payola, first appeared in Variety; a hundred other whammo coinages were popularized there.
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Britain abandoned silver coinage in 1947, after more than two millennia.
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A heavier penny coinage was introduced by Offa to conform with contemporary Carolingian developments.
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A new coinage, based on the denarius, was introduced in 211.
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Significant quantities are still used in jewelry, silver ware, and coinage; but even larger amounts are consumed by the photographic and electronics industries.
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The grant of a patent in 1723 to the Birmingham ironmaster William Wood, to produce copper coinage for Ireland, raised an outcry in the Dublin press, and violent popular demonstrations.
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He even minted his own coinage, which describes him as 'restorer of Britain'.
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It was made into preserves, but more often it was “bletted” a 19th-century coinage from the French blessé, “bruised”, or picked from the tree and kept in a cool, dry place for several weeks until the enzymes in its own cells digest it from within, and its flesh turns soft and brown.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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Gould has written many times about his coinage of the term ‘symphonette.’
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The expression 'boy band' is a nineties coinage.
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On what linguistic structure is this coinage bottomed?
No Uncertain Terms
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Surely, too, as our learned friend has wisely stated, the loss in any recoinage ought, in full justice and honesty, to fall not upon the people of England, but upon the government of England.
The Mississippi Bubble
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‘Psychedelic’ is truly a great word, the coinage of genius.
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He reorganized the administration and divided the empire into 20 satrapies, as well as introducing a standard gold coinage, the daric.
E. The Persian Empire
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It is possible, as Richard Brickstock of Durham University has suggested, that the civilian population of the area hoarded small coinage to buy gold, against a future requirement to pay taxes in gold.
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After the civil war in the 1920s a committee was established under the chairmanship of WB Yeats to mint a coinage fit for a country newly independent for the UK.
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The amount of gold coinage issued annually in Britain, France, and the USA increased nearly six-fold in the early 1850s, and the amount of paper money securely backed by gold also multiplied.
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In 1965, production processes at the Mint included the manufacture of cupro-nickel, coinage bronze and silver blanks (melting, rolling and blanking) together with striking, packaging and distribution of the finished product.
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Indeed, the very term ‘human resources’ (like ‘human capital’) was a coinage of the utilitarian consensus.
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Kristeva's coinage of the term "intertextuality" in the late sixties of the twentieth century ushered in a new chapter of translation studies.
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Unless a search engine belches out an earlier usage, that’s a coinage stunner: it was Hollywood that invented the latest sense of cleavage.
Archive 2007-08-01
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The regulation of foreign coins in correspondency with the principles of our national coinage, as being essential to their due operation and to order in our money concerns, will, I doubt not, be resumed and completed.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
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The inconvenience arising from a scarcity of money would have been of very short duration; for the mutilated pieces would have been detained only till they could be told and weighed; they would then have been sent back into circulation, and the recoinage would have taken place gradually and without any perceptible suspension or disturbance of trade.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4
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Republicans nominated, had voted in Congress for the free coinage of silver, was widely known as a bimetallist, and was only with difficulty persuaded to accept the unequivocal indorsement of the gold standard which was pressed upon him by his counselors.
History of the United States
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The coinage minted there may be recognized by the letter E placed beneath the king's head.
Exeter
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Obviously there is great variation in how useful, innovative, illogical, lazy, funny, awkward, redundant, etc. these coinages are, but the underlying act (word formation through - y suffixation) has a long and illustrious history.
Link love: language (4)
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Heading these were the monetary planks: "a national currency, safe, sound, and flexible, issued by the general Government poly, a full legal tender for all debts," with the subtreasury system of loans "or a better system; free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of sixteen to one"; and an increase in the circulating medium until there should be not less than $50 per capita.
The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics
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In 1867 Paris convened an international monetary conference that voted unanimously in favor of a universal coinage building on the LMU-franc system.
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Nevertheless, by the eighth century, royal control of coinage is clear.
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Such chivalry, it would seem, is an insult to the power and intelligence of the women of Utah, who celebrated their "enfranchisement" by a convention to favor the free coinage of silver, 16 to 1, and whose behavior on that occasion was, to say the least, boyish.
Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates
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You can buy sandwiches from the trolley, order drinks, and in the event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, a mask will drop from above your seat on insertion of the correct coinage.
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Though the term is a fairly recent coinage, what it indicates is something familiar to all.
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As a United States Mint medallic sculptor, he will create and submit coinage and medal designs, and work models, hubs and dies.
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Any nominal profit from this coinage inures to the benefit of the whole people of the United States and not merely to the producers of silver bullion.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
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Some 80 years later, Sheridan cleaned it up in a version called A Trip to Scarborough to suit a more censorious climate but happily retained ‘stap my vitals’ while adding one or two coinages of his own.
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Even the once telling catchphrase that he had ‘something of the night’ about him is unstable - already new coinages are appearing, ‘something of the nice’ is just the most recent.
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On the outbreak of the First Revolutionary Civil War, the Government called in all gold coinage and replaced it by notes.
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Neandertechnology (Joe Ferraro, of Audubon, Pa.) and dinolore (John A. Anderson, of Fort Wayne, Ind.) are delightful coinages that, unfortunately, miss the mark, because the word requested is for skills that have yet to go extinct.
Word Fugitives
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This is not only an imaginative coinage, it is also more accurate than the English word, since computers are rarely asked to compute.
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The fall in silver imports lead to the government minting copper coinage called vellon. 1599 to 1620 saw two decades of vellon production.
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Though Norman dukes controlled the coinage in their domain, no new coins had been minted since the time of William's grandfather.
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The phrase 'glass ceiling' is a fairly recent coinage.
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Where the narrative represents events that contravene these we have four flavours of quirk respectively (expanding on Suvin's coinage/exaptation of "novum" and following his naming strategy): sutura; chimera; erratum; novum.
Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality
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He questioned whether artificial linguistic coinages could force a change in mentalities.
Times, Sunday Times
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Under Bishop Henry II (1047-63), the guardian of Henry IV, the diocese secured the right of coinage was enriched by many donations; under Embrico (or Emmerich, 1063-77) the cathedral was dedicated (1065) and the canonicate and church of St. Peter and St. Felicitas were built.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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All four rulers began striking coinage in their own names as soon as they were able.
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A techi geek word, to grok is a coinage of science-fiction writer R.A. Heinlein, meaning to understand something thoroughly by having empathy with it.
Women Grow Business » On Clients and Marketable Nuggets, an Entrepreneur Asks: What is Grok?
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This hiatus in material culture and of the circulation of low-value coinage, both critical to the dating of archaeological deposits, has led some interpretations of site histories to argue for gaps in occupation in the third century.
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Be that as it may, after the barbarian invasion there was no authority to re-introduce gold coinage that would circulate.
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The alleged distinction between tsaritsa and tsarina does not exist: the latter term is not a Russian word at all, but a west European coinage.
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The coinage and use of compound words often follow a pattern of development in texts and social situations, usually a sequence that reinforces certain usages and may precipitate others.
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Stand back, everybody, I feel a new word coinage coming on.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [148] -- Aliens Landing?
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Athelstan, the forceful grandson of Alfred, was the first to impose a unified coinage, which depicted him as the first English king to wear a crown.
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The emperors, busy in Germany or preoccupied with the popes, made wide grants of regalian rights over local coinage, tolls, customs dues, police powers, and justice (diplomas of Henry I, Lothair II, and Conrad II); there were also considerable delegations of local episcopal powers.
2. The Development of Italian Towns
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To combat deflation further, the platform demanded the unlimited coinage of silver and an increase in the money supply "to no less than $50 per capita.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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It can be effected by opening the U.S. Mint to the free and unlimited coinage of gold, as mandated by the U.S. Constitution.
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Having fun with words can involve creative rhymes (“I do not roister with an oyster”) and nonce coinages (“my family was a scribacious lot”).
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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A later caliph, Abd al-Malik, strengthened the organization of the empire, making Arabic the official language of government and replacing Byzantine and Sassanian coinage with coins with Arabic inscriptions.
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Such coinages arose on the basis of a separate suffixal model of deverbal nominalization quite rarely.
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New coinages appear literally on a weekly basis, nobody appears to have real input on the appropriateness of new words or on their usefulness, especially when it comes to jargon.
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His experts produced the Usages of Barcelona, a legal code that stressed his regalian rights over justice, the peace, and the coinage.
3. Barcelona and Catalonia
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This image, known as the manus Dei or dextera Dei, “the hand of God,” denoted divine approval and was already a common sight on the coinage of Arcadius.
Caesars’ Wives
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Because the existing word hypnagogic means “of, relating to, or occurring in the state of intermediate consciousness preceding sleep,” and hypnopompic means “of or relating to the partially conscious state that precedes complete awakening from sleep,” many people came up with hyp - coinages.
Word Fugitives
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The paper currency (circulating since 1745) replaced with silver-based coinagethe riksdaler.
1768, Dec
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Because the existing word hypnagogic means “of, relating to, or occurring in the state of intermediate consciousness preceding sleep,” and hypnopompic means “of or relating to the partially conscious state that precedes complete awakening from sleep,” many people came up with hyp - coinages.
Word Fugitives
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As I stood gazing at the picture painted by the _gold_ of the sun, and _silver_ of the moon, I felt whatever may have been my views on the money question, the sun's gold-standard glory, and the moon's free-silver coinage, as seen from these Colorado Chautauqua grounds make me henceforth a Boulder bi-metalist.
Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures
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Senator Sherman is an international bimetallist and a pronounced opponent of independent silver coinage.
American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)
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At the time of the great recoinage of 1696 bimetallism was still the basis of the British currency, silver and gold providing the mainstay.
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The incident fired up the blogging community and earned her a celebrity blogger status creating a coinage that is all her own (to be "dooced" is to be fired for something you write online).
Vancouver Photography, Web Strategiest & Creative Director
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Metals like silver, nickel and gold are a perfect medium for coinage because of their durability and the value accorded by their relative rarity.
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You will recall the undignified use Sir Thomas More would have us put it to, and how there was no money at all in the Republic of Plato, and in that later community for which he wrote his Laws an iron coinage of austere appearance and doubtful efficacy ....
A Modern Utopia
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The point is that Fekete's plan calls for opening up the U.S. Mint for coinage of both gold and silver coins as the Founders intended.
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Offa's coinage was produced largely at Canterbury, by named moneyers, was more plentiful than before, and of higher artistic merit.
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Many of these inkhorn coinages were used only once and gained no currency at all among other writers.
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The basic coinage instituted by Augustus comprised the copper quadrans, brass semis, copper as, brass dupondius and sestertius, silver denarius, and gold aureus.
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He was especially severe in commenting on the "uppishness," (to use a word of modern coinage), of young men under age adopting the slang engendered by the French Revolutionary times, and prating about the rights of man, the inalienable right of resistance to tyranny, and such "bigoty" phrases.
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912
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Robin Red-breast was just another of these coinages, used since about 1450 to name a commonplace bird.
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In the Forest of Dartmoor, Devonshire, between Tavistock and Chegford, is a high hill, called Crocken Tor, where the tinners of this county are obliged by their charter to assemble their parliaments, or the jurats who are commonly gentlemen within the jurisdiction, chosen from the four stannary courts of coinage in this county, of which the lord-warden is judge.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829
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Scraping the last piastre from the peasants, the tax collectors extracted a “great diversity of currency,” much of it in antique or small coinage, still strung together as jewelry.
Three Empires on the Nile
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He also is the artist for George Washington's Inaugural Centennial Medal, and was asked by Theodore Roosevelt to redesign the U.S. gold coinage.
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Coinage in both England and Francia was used as a means of affirming royal authority, though the volume of production of early medieval coinage is still in question.
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We have excellent representations of him, a bust by Torrigiano, a portrait by Sittow, a remarkable death mask, coinage likenesses, and a realistic tomb effigy.
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In the 750s, Pepin assumed the kingship of the Franks and introduced a completely new silver coinage, using the Latin term ‘denarius’.
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Not only is the phrase versus populum of very late coinage; it does not mean what its champions claim it does.
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Edward I carried out a grand recoinage in 1279-80, minting new coins, silver halfpennies and farthings, to remove the need to cut, and a fourpence groat, which was not at first successful.
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Its empire instead consisted in commerce, particularly through the control that Venetian coinage exerted over international trade.
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Loose coins become known as coinage or, occasionally, specie.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
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Recent work on the silver coinage has revealed a complex system of which even Domesday contains little trace.
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Always the playful neologist (pertussion is his coinage from the technical term for whooping cough, pertussis), Wallace has lately become a professor of literature.
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More recently, and particularly in our own Coinage, Heraldry and Art have declined together, so that feeble designs, but too commonly executed with lamentable consistency, are associated with heraldic inaccuracies which continue uncorrected to this day -- witness the _tressure of
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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Christian Madsen, of La Canada, Calif., covered both faucet and towel territory but took two coinages to do it: “How about the movements derived from ancient Asian fighting techniques, fau-cetsu and drykwondo?”
Word Fugitives
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Interest in coinage, or neology, is closely akin to etymology, the history of coinage and semantic development.
No Uncertain Terms
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Strong points or burghs were constructed; control of coinage established; a navy created, and the kingdom divided up into shires and hundreds.
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As a psychological phenomenon, physiognomic perception has profound effects upon words' evolvement including coinage, word formation, and change of word meaning.
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And, even after the invention of coinage, many areas or cities did not use it.
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He took a moderate bimetallist position, endorsing the use of silver as well as gold, but opposing the inflationist policy of the unlimited coinage of silver (free silver).
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Another Italian word, imbroglio, “a confused entanglement,” was used by editors of The New Republic in a portmanteau coinage.
No Uncertain Terms
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British cyclists likened the disparity in size of the two wheels to their coinage, nicknaming it the penny-farthing.
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Probably more interesting is Shakespeare's inventiveness with noun-verb coinages.
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Apart from providing the UK's coinage, Royal Mint also produces some of the world's finest coins and provides coinage for more than 100 countries.
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Its platform called for the free coinage of silver and plenty of paper money.
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The expense of this recoinage I am sure we can find maintained by the stockholders of the Bank of England, and for their pay we shall propose
The Mississippi Bubble
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| The Greek word '' 'κοδραντης' '' referred to the Roman '' quadrans '', the smallest coin in the Roman coinage system.
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The new coinage in question was a word doing the rounds of fashion circles - recessionista.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is no wonder that the Carolingian clerics, who were the spin doctors of their day, drew attention to the parallels, which are also manifest in Louis's coinage.
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Always the playful neologist (pertussion is his coinage from the technical term for whooping cough, pertussis), Wallace has lately become a professor of literature.
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Metals like silver, nickel and gold are a perfect medium for coinage because of their durability and the value accorded by their relative rarity.
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Newspapers that expect to attain eternal life as lighthouses amidst the roiling darkness of "data smog" (a fine coinage of onliners) will have to smarten up.
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This means that the essence of European civilization is what Brague calls, in another of his coinages, ‘secondarity.’
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These coins were legal tender in the USA until 1857, as the young USA had few coins and many merchants preferred the Spanish Reals to USA coinage.
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Best known as the maker of the state's first coinage, issuing shillings, sixpence, and threepence silver coins in 1783, Chalmers's marked domestic silver is exceedingly rare.
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I think our coinage is artistically of atrocious hideousness.
Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle, Without Motto, 1907-1908 : Coin Guide
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It took until Edgar's standardizing reform of 973 to convert these semi-independent regional coinages into something approaching a national currency.
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These portrait coins were minted from 814 to 818, and it was probably during this period that Louis also struck a splendid gold coinage.
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It is less often remembered that he built a third pillar, almost as important as the other two: he issued a new gold coin, called the solidus in Latin and the nomisma in Greek, which remained the basis of Byzantine coinage for 700 years.
Superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism
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The phrase 'glass ceiling' is a fairly recent coinage.
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Before 1971, the primary coinage had 20 pence equal to one shilling.
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Over-governed is a recent coinage, normally referring in Britain to regional assemblies or Europe.
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It is impossible to recall without a shudder that there was at that time neither money nor credit, that the pressing debts were immense, the revenues exhausted in anticipation, the resources annihilated, the public securities valueless, the coinage impoverished and without circulation, the discount-fund bankrupt, the general tax-exchequer (_ferme general_) on the point of failing to meet its bills, and the royal treasury reduced to two bags of
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
