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/mˈənid/ Listen

adjective

Monied adj. See Moneyed.

adverb

Moneyed adv.

Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyed men. (Also spelled monied)

Converted into money; coined. "If exportation will not balance importation, away must your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed."

Consisting in, or composed of, money.

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Etymology of 'Monied'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Monied" Quotes from Famous Books

... suggested. Not only the cross or image, but the ample surface of the six columns and two woods, flash with tested gold. The capitols{23} cleave to the Church, such as the Roman summit never possessed, the wonderful work of which scarce the monied wealth of Croesus could begin. In truth their entrances are like squares. Within a rounded space lies open, putting to the proof, both in material and art, Solomon's temple. If of these the perfection ...

— Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln - A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England • Charles L. Marson

... cousin; "the tatterdemallion to whom you allude, is probably less impoverished than penurious; perhaps of miserly habits, and in other respects disqualified for polite society. What then, he is doubtless in ample possession of the essential requisite; and here a monied man only is a good man, and without money ...

— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... by a vote of the house) are in general esteemed to be (as it were) final and conclusive. For, through [Transcriber's Note: though] the supply cannot be actually raised upon the subject till directed by an act of the whole parliament, yet no monied man will scruple to advance to the government any quantity of ready cash, on the credit of a bare vote of the house of commons, though no law be ...

— Commentaries on the Laws of England - Book the First • William Blackstone

... not religion, and reform, Peace, war, the taxes, and what 's call'd the 'Nation'? The struggle to be pilots in a storm? The landed and the monied speculation? The joys of mutual hate to keep them warm, Instead of love, that mere hallucination? Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, ...

— Don Juan • Lord Byron