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† ˈminutary, a. Obs.
[f. minute a. and n. + -ary.]
1. ? Pertaining to minute quantities.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xv. xxvii. Vives' Comm. 569 One cubit is generally taken for sixe of our common cubits, or for three hundred minutary cubits [orig. Apud geometras..vel in sex cubitos vnus deputatur, si generaliter, vel trecentos, si minutatim dicatur].
2. Consisting of minutes (of time).
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. Ded., No mortal man can assign the minutary juncture of Time, when preparing grace..ended, and saving grace..did first begin. a1661― Worthies, Berks (1662) i. 95 This their Clock gathering up the least Crume of Time, presenting the Minutary fractions thereof. |