diminishedadj.

/dɪˈmɪnɪʃt/

Etymology: < diminish v. + -ed suffix¹.

a. Made smaller, lessened: see the verb. (†In quot. 1607, Lowered in condition, weakened, wasted, emaciated.) diminished return (cf. diminishing adj. 1b).

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the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > [adjective] > reduced in size or extent

minished1590

narrowed1599

diminished1607

shorn1853

ensmalled1857

reduced1880

Sanforized1968

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [adjective] > withered

forpined1377

contractc1430

withereda1500

forwithered1563

arefacted1599

arefacting1599

corky1603

diminished1607

shrivelled1607

shirpit1821

shriveldy1840

mummified1879

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > decreased

diminutec1475

suppeditate?1526

lessened1565

minished1590

declined1591

reduced1591

bated1600

contracted1603

waneda1616

mute1627

shrivelleda1631

refracted1635

imminutea1681

retrenched1693

lowered1730

diminished1745

subdued1785

dwindled1796

depressed1831

shrunken1873

downrated1958

whittled-down1961

pared-down1974

slim-down1978

slimmed-down1978

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 686 For the encouraging of a feeble or diminished Horsse, Eumelus reporteth, the flesh of swine..mingled in wine, and giuen in drinke, to be exceeding good.

1745 E. Young Consolation 85 How swift I mount? Diminish'd Earth recedes.

1817 D. Ricardo Princ. Polit. Econ. ii. 61 On the best land, the same produce would still be obtained with the same labour as before, but its value would be enhanced in consequence of the diminished returns obtained by those who employed fresh labour and stock on the less fertile land.

1843 J. R. McCulloch Princ. Polit. Econ. (new ed.) iii. vii. 494 The greatest amount of capital and labour may be employed in fashioning raw produce and adapting it to our use, and in transporting it from where it is produced to where it is consumed, without a diminished return.

a1850 J. C. Calhoun Wks. (1874) VI. 140 Rays of sovereignty..to be reflected back, not in diminished, but increased splendor.

b. diminished responsibility n. a state of mental disturbance or abnormality, not classifiable as insanity, but recognized in law as a ground for exempting a person from full liability for criminal behaviour.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > slight madness

touch1710

touchedness1883

pixilation1936

diminished responsibility1957

1957 Act 5 & 6 Eliz. II c. 11 §2 Persons suffering from diminished responsibility. Where a person kills..he shall not be convicted of murder if he was suffering from such abnormality of mind..as substantially impaired his mental responsibility.

1958 Spectator 31 Jan. 126/1 Suppose that at his trial Taper should plead diminished responsibility, alleging that Sir Reginald's speeches had driven him..barmy.

1963 Times 6 Feb. 6/2 Found Not Guilty of murdering the girl but Guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of his diminished responsibility.

2. Lowered in importance, estimation, or power (see diminish v. 3).

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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [adjective]

dejectc1528

broken1535

abased1554

come1564

downfallen1575

snubbed1583

crestfallen1589

humiliate1593

plume-plucked1597

low-broughta1599

chop-fallen1604

chap-fallen1608

dejected1608

humbleda1616

unprided1628

diminished1667

mortified1710

small1771

humiliated1782

squelched1837

grovelleda1845

sat-upon1873

comedown1886

deflated1894

zapped1962

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 35 O thou [sun]..at whose sight all the Starrs Hide thir diminisht heads.

1698 W. Congreve Birth of Muse 5 She feels..the Shame Of Honours lost, and her diminish'd Name.

1840 E. E. Napier Scenes & Sports Foreign Lands I. p. xxxv Crest-fallen and dejected..[they] hide..their diminished heads.

1925 H. Belloc Mr. Petre i. 22 A diminished man. One who had ‘had an accident’.

1932 A. Huxley Brave New World xii. 204 Bernard had to slink back, diminished, to his rooms.

1960 Woman's Own 3 Dec. 18/3 Amy hated..to have him look like that, diminished and remote.

3. Architecture, etc. (See quots.)

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the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [adjective] > others

lachrymal1607

tauriform1721

diminished1726

tailed1767

acinose1796

aciniform1798

acinous1809

slab-sided1817

lip-like1836

mound-like1843

high-centred1847

square-toed1851

brush-shaped1880

mushroom1884

bolster-shaped1900

arrowhead1934

narrow-gutted1952

panhandled1960

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 53/2 The imperfect, or diminish'd Arch..is not a compleat Semi-circle, but a determinate part less.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 584 Diminished Bar, in joinery, the bar of a sash that is thinnest on the inner edge.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 964 Diminished Column, a column whereof the upper diameter is less than the lower.

4. Music.

a. Of an interval: Less by a chromatic semitone than a perfect, or than a minor, interval of the same name: opposed to augmented. diminished triad, a triad containing a diminished (instead of a perfect) fifth.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [adjective] > imperfect

false1597

imperfect1609

semi-perfect1623

superfluous1664

diminished1728

augmented1821

pluperfect1876

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Diminish'd Interval, in Music, is a defective Interval, or an Interval which is short of its just Quantity by a lesser Semi-tone.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Interval A Table of Musical Intervals..Diminished Fourth..Diminished Fifth..Diminished Seventh.

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 297/1 The dominant 7th and the diminished 7th, or their inversions.

1855 R. Browning Toccata of Galuppi's vii, in Men & Women I. 58 Those lesser thirds so plaintive, sixths diminished, sigh on sigh.

1880 C. H. H. Parry in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 448 The diminished seventh..is a semitone less than the ordinary minor seventh.

1920 P. C. Buck Unfigured Harmony (ed. 2) 12 Diminished sevenths are extremely useful, though more liable to be over-used than any other chord.

1953 R. Vaughan Williams Some Thoughts on Beethoven's Choral Symphony 49 So is the diminished seventh of Bach's Barabbas a well-worn device.

1955 G. Abraham in H. van Thal Fanfare for E. Newman 14 Equally characteristic of the more mature Wagner is the lightening of the diminished sevenths.., leaving a purely string chord.

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b. diminished subject, a subject repeated in diminution (see diminution n. 5a).

c. diminished chord, a chord containing a diminished interval or intervals.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [adjective] > other chords

minor1797

submediant1889

diminished chord1949

1949 L. Feather Inside Be-bop ii. 71 The diminished chord, for no apparent reason, is used less frequently in bebop than in earlier jazz.

1958 C. Wilford in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz ii. 32 The harmonies of ragtime..are made distinctive by very wide use of diminished chords.

d. diminished seventh (chord), a chord in which the interval between the outer notes is a diminished seventh.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > other chords

seventh1591

fourth1597

sixth1597

fifth1631

tierce1696

septime1725

repercussion1728

octave1749

substitution1784

triad1786

German sixth1812

French sixth1813

nintha1830

Neapolitan sixth1871

six-four1873

Italian sixth1875

tetrad1881

added sixth1888

leading seventh1889

ninth chord1889

under-chord1890

diminished seventh1926

1926 A. Niles in W. C. Handy Blues 16 The device..of ending up the tune on the diminished seventh chord.

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diminished capacity n. Law (originally and chiefly U.S.) = diminished responsibility n. at sense 1b.Frequently attributive in diminished capacity defense, diminished capacity plea.

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1957 Court-martial Rep. (U.S.) 24 623 It is not entirely settled whether a requirement for instructions arises from evidence of an impaired or diminished capacity, in contrast to evidence of total incapacity to entertain specific intent.

1969 Press-Courier (Oxnard, Calif.) 7 Dec. 2/3 Under California law, a diminished capacity plea contends the accused did not have the mental capacity to reflect and deliberate on his act.

1977 Las Vegas Sun 28 Mar. 26/5 Keith has indicated that he will rely heavily on psychiatric testimony to support a ‘diminished capacity’ defense.

2012 L. Miller Criminal Psychol. vi. 148 If not sufficient for an insanity defense per se, PTSD..may be used to argue for diminished capacity as a mitigating factor at sentencing.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	diminished
释义	diminishedadj. /dɪˈmɪnɪʃt/ Etymology: < diminish v. + -ed suffix¹. 1. a. Made smaller, lessened: see the verb. (†In quot. 1607, Lowered in condition, weakened, wasted, emaciated.) diminished return (cf. diminishing adj. 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > [adjective] > reduced in size or extent minished1590 narrowed1599 diminished1607 shorn1853 ensmalled1857 reduced1880 Sanforized1968 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [adjective] > withered forpined1377 contractc1430 withereda1500 forwithered1563 arefacted1599 arefacting1599 corky1603 diminished1607 shrivelled1607 shirpit1821 shriveldy1840 mummified1879 the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > decreased diminutec1475 suppeditate?1526 lessened1565 minished1590 declined1591 reduced1591 bated1600 contracted1603 waneda1616 mute1627 shrivelleda1631 refracted1635 imminutea1681 retrenched1693 lowered1730 diminished1745 subdued1785 dwindled1796 depressed1831 shrunken1873 downrated1958 whittled-down1961 pared-down1974 slim-down1978 slimmed-down1978 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 686 For the encouraging of a feeble or diminished Horsse, Eumelus reporteth, the flesh of swine..mingled in wine, and giuen in drinke, to be exceeding good. 1745 E. Young Consolation 85 How swift I mount? Diminish'd Earth recedes. 1817 D. Ricardo Princ. Polit. Econ. ii. 61 On the best land, the same produce would still be obtained with the same labour as before, but its value would be enhanced in consequence of the diminished returns obtained by those who employed fresh labour and stock on the less fertile land. 1843 J. R. McCulloch Princ. Polit. Econ. (new ed.) iii. vii. 494 The greatest amount of capital and labour may be employed in fashioning raw produce and adapting it to our use, and in transporting it from where it is produced to where it is consumed, without a diminished return. a1850 J. C. Calhoun Wks. (1874) VI. 140 Rays of sovereignty..to be reflected back, not in diminished, but increased splendor. b. diminished responsibility n. a state of mental disturbance or abnormality, not classifiable as insanity, but recognized in law as a ground for exempting a person from full liability for criminal behaviour. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > slight madness touch1710 touchedness1883 pixilation1936 diminished responsibility1957 1957 Act 5 & 6 Eliz. II c. 11 §2 Persons suffering from diminished responsibility. Where a person kills..he shall not be convicted of murder if he was suffering from such abnormality of mind..as substantially impaired his mental responsibility. 1958 Spectator 31 Jan. 126/1 Suppose that at his trial Taper should plead diminished responsibility, alleging that Sir Reginald's speeches had driven him..barmy. 1963 Times 6 Feb. 6/2 Found Not Guilty of murdering the girl but Guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of his diminished responsibility. 2. Lowered in importance, estimation, or power (see diminish v. 3). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [adjective] dejectc1528 broken1535 abased1554 come1564 downfallen1575 snubbed1583 crestfallen1589 humiliate1593 plume-plucked1597 low-broughta1599 chop-fallen1604 chap-fallen1608 dejected1608 humbleda1616 unprided1628 diminished1667 mortified1710 small1771 humiliated1782 squelched1837 grovelleda1845 sat-upon1873 comedown1886 deflated1894 zapped1962 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 35 O thou [sun]..at whose sight all the Starrs Hide thir diminisht heads. View more context for this quotation 1698 W. Congreve Birth of Muse 5 She feels..the Shame Of Honours lost, and her diminish'd Name. 1840 E. E. Napier Scenes & Sports Foreign Lands I. p. xxxv Crest-fallen and dejected..[they] hide..their diminished heads. 1925 H. Belloc Mr. Petre i. 22 A diminished man. One who had ‘had an accident’. 1932 A. Huxley Brave New World xii. 204 Bernard had to slink back, diminished, to his rooms. 1960 Woman's Own 3 Dec. 18/3 Amy hated..to have him look like that, diminished and remote. 3. Architecture, etc. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [adjective] > others lachrymal1607 tauriform1721 diminished1726 tailed1767 acinose1796 aciniform1798 acinous1809 slab-sided1817 lip-like1836 mound-like1843 high-centred1847 square-toed1851 brush-shaped1880 mushroom1884 bolster-shaped1900 arrowhead1934 narrow-gutted1952 panhandled1960 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 53/2 The imperfect, or diminish'd Arch..is not a compleat Semi-circle, but a determinate part less. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 584 Diminished Bar, in joinery, the bar of a sash that is thinnest on the inner edge. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 964 Diminished Column, a column whereof the upper diameter is less than the lower. 4. Music. a. Of an interval: Less by a chromatic semitone than a perfect, or than a minor, interval of the same name: opposed to augmented. diminished triad, a triad containing a diminished (instead of a perfect) fifth. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [adjective] > imperfect false1597 imperfect1609 semi-perfect1623 superfluous1664 diminished1728 augmented1821 pluperfect1876 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Diminish'd Interval, in Music, is a defective Interval, or an Interval which is short of its just Quantity by a lesser Semi-tone. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Interval A Table of Musical Intervals..Diminished Fourth..Diminished Fifth..Diminished Seventh. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 297/1 The dominant 7th and the diminished 7th, or their inversions. 1855 R. Browning Toccata of Galuppi's vii, in Men & Women I. 58 Those lesser thirds so plaintive, sixths diminished, sigh on sigh. 1880 C. H. H. Parry in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 448 The diminished seventh..is a semitone less than the ordinary minor seventh. 1920 P. C. Buck Unfigured Harmony (ed. 2) 12 Diminished sevenths are extremely useful, though more liable to be over-used than any other chord. 1953 R. Vaughan Williams Some Thoughts on Beethoven's Choral Symphony 49 So is the diminished seventh of Bach's Barabbas a well-worn device. 1955 G. Abraham in H. van Thal Fanfare for E. Newman 14 Equally characteristic of the more mature Wagner is the lightening of the diminished sevenths.., leaving a purely string chord. Thesaurus » Categories » b. diminished subject, a subject repeated in diminution (see diminution n. 5a). c. diminished chord, a chord containing a diminished interval or intervals. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [adjective] > other chords minor1797 submediant1889 diminished chord1949 1949 L. Feather Inside Be-bop ii. 71 The diminished chord, for no apparent reason, is used less frequently in bebop than in earlier jazz. 1958 C. Wilford in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz ii. 32 The harmonies of ragtime..are made distinctive by very wide use of diminished chords. d. diminished seventh (chord), a chord in which the interval between the outer notes is a diminished seventh. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > other chords seventh1591 fourth1597 sixth1597 fifth1631 tierce1696 septime1725 repercussion1728 octave1749 substitution1784 triad1786 German sixth1812 French sixth1813 nintha1830 Neapolitan sixth1871 six-four1873 Italian sixth1875 tetrad1881 added sixth1888 leading seventh1889 ninth chord1889 under-chord1890 diminished seventh1926 1926 A. Niles in W. C. Handy Blues 16 The device..of ending up the tune on the diminished seventh chord. Draft additions March 2017 diminished capacity n. Law (originally and chiefly U.S.) = diminished responsibility n. at sense 1b.Frequently attributive in diminished capacity defense, diminished capacity plea. ΚΠ 1957 Court-martial Rep. (U.S.) 24 623 It is not entirely settled whether a requirement for instructions arises from evidence of an impaired or diminished capacity, in contrast to evidence of total incapacity to entertain specific intent. 1969 Press-Courier (Oxnard, Calif.) 7 Dec. 2/3 Under California law, a diminished capacity plea contends the accused did not have the mental capacity to reflect and deliberate on his act. 1977 Las Vegas Sun 28 Mar. 26/5 Keith has indicated that he will rely heavily on psychiatric testimony to support a ‘diminished capacity’ defense. 2012 L. Miller Criminal Psychol. vi. 148 If not sufficient for an insanity defense per se, PTSD..may be used to argue for diminished capacity as a mitigating factor at sentencing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1607
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