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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

... the theatres. It is said that with Lady Jane he made no progress. Her manner, at the beginning cold and formal, became daily more so; until, at last, he was half disposed to abandon the pursuit—in which, by the by, he has since confessed, monied views entered more than any affection for the lady —when the thought struck him to benefit by what he supposed at first to be the great bar to his success. He suddenly pretended to be only desirous of intimacy ...

— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)

... enthusiastic since the campaign of 1800 when Jefferson was elected, as they were in 1832 when they sided with President Jackson in his fight against the United States Bank. They considered this contest as one between the people, on the one side, and, on the other, the monied aristocracy of the country. The United States Bank was effaced; but the State banks promptly took over that share of the exploitative process so long carried on by the United States Bank and the people, as has already been explained, were ...

— History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I - Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times • Myers Gustavus

... window, from the drawing-rooms to the attics, in Pleasant-terrace were studded with heads, in someway resembling the doll heads in a gingerbread lottery, with which a man on a wooden leg was tempting the monied portion of the juvenile alarmists. Agamemnon opened the door, and being flanked by the whole of his household, proceeded to address the populace on the present satisfactory state of his kitchen chimney. ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various