Unminted

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8. Cf. Da. umyntet.)

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1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xxiv. 164. [She] caused the value of fortie thousand Angels in Bullion, vnminted,… to be sent.

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1636. Pagitt, Christianogr. (ed. 2), II. 40. The Treasury of merits was unminted.

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1739. G. Ogle, Gualtherus & Griselda, 87. Virtue, in low, is an unminted Mine.

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1845. Petrie, Round Towers Irel., 215. The precious metals were used as a circulating medium in large unminted pieces.

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1881. Duffield, Don Quixote, II. 402. To rail on the lightness of women,… their unminted promises.

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