(uncountable) A form of alternativemedicine from Southeast Asia where a coin is rubbed vigorously on a patient's oiled skin.
(countable, linguistics) A newly created word or phrase
1783 , Hugh Blair, The Monthly Review, Poetry admits of greater latitude than proſe, which with reſpect to coining, or, at leaſt, new-compounding words; yet, even here, this liberty ſhould be uſed with a ſparing hand.
1989, Horsley, G.H.R., New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity Chapter The Greek Documentary Evidence and NT Lexical Study: Some Soundings, Once we move into the Patristic period, there is undoubted evidence for new coinings of words (particularly compounds) as a response to the needs of the theological debates which occurred.
2009, Kristin Denham, Anne Lobeck, Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction Chapter Morphological Typology and Word Formation, Coinings or neologisms are words that have recently been created. ... True coinings, which are completely new words, are rather rare relative to the vast number of words we create by means of the other word formation processes.
