1. Minted, made into coin; in the form of coin.
c. 1400. Test. Love, I. (1560), 278 b/1. The value of the least coigned plate.
1678. J. Phillips, trans. Tavernier’s Trav., India, I. ii. 18. If you carry coin’d gold, the best pieces are Jacobus’s, Rose-nobles, Albertus’s.
1745. De Foe’s Eng. Tradesman, xlv. (1841), II. 165. Copper, in coined plates.
1846. Grote, Greece (1862), I. xx. 493. Coined money is unknown to the Homeric age.
2. fig. Fabricated, deliberately invented, made up; see the verb.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, I. (Arb.), 29. His syb … with long coynd forgerye feeding.
1593. Shaks., Lucr., 1073. I will not … fold my fault in cleanly coin’d excuses.
a. 1647. Sir R. Filmer, Patriarcha, i. § 1. The new coined distinction of subjects into royalists and patriots.
1881. Skeat, Etymol. Dict., Oxygen … is a coined word.
