Definition of Maundy money

1. Noun. Specially minted silver coins that are distributed by the British sovereign on Maundy Thursday.


Definition of Maundy money

1. Noun. (British) A special coinage given to the deserving poor in a religious ceremony performed by Anglicans on Maundy Thursday ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maundy Money

Maughamesque
Maughamian
Maui
Maui Island
Mauldin
Maulis
Maulvibazar District
Mauna Kea
Mauna Loa
Maunday Thursday
Maunday coin
Maunday money
Maunder minimum
Maundy
Maundy Thursday
Maundy money (current term)
Maura
Maureen
Maureen Catherine Connolly
Maurer's clefts
Maurer's dots
Mauresque
Mauretania
Mauretanian
Mauriac
Mauriac's syndrome
Maurice
Maurice Barrymore
Maurice Chevalier

Literary usage of Maundy money

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Maundy money, maundy coins, money distributed by the almoner of the ... The maundy money- is to the amount of a penny for each year of the sovereign's age. ..."

2. The Saturday Magazine (1841)
"Mr. Till, an experienced numismatist, passes a high eulogium on the beauty and production of the small pieces termed Maundy money. ..."

3. An Essay on the Roman Denarius and English Silver Penny: Shewing Their by William Till (1838)
"The Maundy money is to the amount of a penny for each year of the King's age; presuming that to be seventy- one, there would be given to the value of five ..."

4. The Gold, Silver, and Copper Coins of England: Exhibited in a Series of Fac by Henry Noel Humphreys (1849)
"211 is a specimen of the Maundy money, which had the bust like the larger pieces, but only crowned numerals on the reverse. j^the coins of the short but ..."

5. Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain and Its Dependencies:: From the by Rogers Ruding (1840)
"The threepenny piece to have the same type as the maundy money of this reign. The three- halfpenny piece to bear on the reverse the figures 1^, ..."

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