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Definition of Maundy money
1. Noun. Specially minted silver coins that are distributed by the British sovereign on Maundy Thursday.
Generic synonyms: Coin
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
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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