mintmaster
English
Alternative forms
- mint master, mind-master
Noun
mintmaster (plural mintmasters)
- Synonym of moneyer, the superintendant of a mint, particularly (historical) one responsible for coinage.
- 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface:
- The Mintmaster, and Goldsmith, in their Mixture of Metals, either of diuerse kindes, or diuerse values: how are they, or may they, exactly be directed, and meruailously pleasured, if Arithmetike be their guide?
- 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface:
- Synonym of master of the mint, the national superintendant of all mints.
- (obsolete or archaic) Synonym of neologist, a person who coins new words or expressions.
Related terms
- master
- master of the mint
- Master of the Mint
- mint
- mintkeeper
- mint keeper
- mint master
- warden of the mint
- Warden of the Mint
References
- “mintmaster, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 118975.
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