Definition of "coiner"

But canst thou excuse thy selfe of vice in that thou art not couetous? certeinly no more then the murtherer would therefore be guiltlesse bicause he is no coyner.

1580, John Lyly, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wyt‎, London: Gabriel Cawood, page 85

[…] that most venerable man which IDid call my father, was I know not whereWhen I was stamp’d; some coiner with his toolsMade me a counterfeit […]

1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene v]

The figures and letters were so mingled together, that one would think the Coiner was hard put to it on what part of the money to bestow the several words of his inscription.

1726, Joseph Addison, Dialogues upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals‎, Dialogue 3, p. 154

The dangers to which a false coiner is every where exposed, if he lives in the country of which he counterfeits the coin, and to which his agents or correspondents are exposed if he lives in a foreign country, are by far too great to be incurred for the sake of a profit of six or seven per cent.

1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, Book 4, Chapter 6, pp. 139-40

The coiners too multiplied and prospered; for the worse the current money became the more easily it was imitated.

1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 21, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page 87

These are some unusual Words, which I have used in the rendering this Book into English; not that I would make it a Strange-Lation, or be a Coyner of new words to amuse the mind only, but to express as well, and as fitly as I could, the Authors Intent and scope […]

1651, John Ellistone (translator), Signatura Rerum by Jakob Böhme (1621), London: Gyles Calvert, Postscript, “The Translators Exposition of the word, Sude,” p. 207

This is likewise a Libel upon the memory of Mr. Dryden whom he pretends to admire; for never any one was a greater Coiner than he, and it is directly contrary to the Improvement of Languages […]

1711, John Dennis, Reflections Critical and Satyrical, upon a Late Rhapsody call’d, An Essay upon Criticism‎, London: Bernard Lintott, page 16

It was not, however, among the verbs and adjectives that the American word-coiners of the first half of the century achieved their gaudiest innovations, but among the substantives.

1919, H. L. Mencken, The American Language‎, New York: Knopf, Chapter 3, §3, p. 80

Any fresh idea is immediately pounced on and mauled to death. Irvin Cobb remarked concerning the dull conversation of Hollywood that the phrase coiners preserved silence until they had sold the wheeze themselves.

1952, Harold Innis, The Strategy of Culture‎, University of Toronto Press, Footnote 86

[…] the inuenter & coyner of al these michiefes, & seruante & bondslaue of al bawdie luste, fylthie concupiscence, and all detestable sinne and vice.

1566, Petrus Frarinus, translated by John Fowler, An Oration against the Unlawfull Insturrections of the Protestantes of our Time‎, Antwerp

The truth is, men in generall hate lying, both the coyner of it, and the teller of it […]

1615, Richard Rogers, A Commentary upon the Whole Booke of Judges‎, Sermon 66, Chapter 11, Part 2, p. 559

[…] a coyner and broacher of fictions and fables, to gain credit thereby to his cheating Trade, and to gull poor people with, by telling them such fond tales, and frivolous stories, as himself well knows, and his own Conscience (if he have any at least,) told him, that he had no proof at all for […]

1654, Thomas Gataker, A Discours Apologetical‎, London: Thomas Newberry, page 2

[…] a Romancer, a Coyner of Fables, a Misrepresenter and Slanderer […]

1698, Robert Ferguson, A View of an Ecclesiastick in his Socks & Buskins‎, London: John Marshall, page 74