单词 | minorate |
释义 | † minorateadj. Obsolete. rare. Lessened; reduced. ΚΠ ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 86v (MED) When forsoþ þe sanie þat first was indigeste goþ out digeste & minorate, i. lessed [?c1425 Paris lesse; L. minorata], it is signe þat þe fistule is mortified. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2019). minoratev. Now archaic and rare. transitive. To diminish, lessen; to reduce in value or significance. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] littleeOE anitherOE wanzelOE lessc1225 slakea1300 littenc1300 aslakec1314 adminisha1325 allayc1330 settle1338 low1340 minisha1382 reprovea1382 abatea1398 rebatea1398 subtlea1398 alaskia1400 forlyten?a1400 imminish14.. lessenc1410 diminish1417 repress?a1425 assuagec1430 scarcec1440 small1440 underslakec1440 alessa1450 debate?c1450 batec1460 decreasec1470 appetisse1474 alow1494 mince1499 perswage?1504 remita1513 inless?1521 attenuate1530 weaken1530 defray1532 mitigate1532 minorate1534 narrow?1548 diminuec1550 extenuate1555 amain1578 exolve1578 base1581 dejecta1586 amoinder1588 faint1598 qualify1604 contract1605 to pull down1607 shrivel1609 to take down1610 disaugment1611 impoverish1611 shrink1628 decoct1629 persway1631 unflame1635 straiten1645 depress1647 reduce1649 detract1654 minuate1657 alloy1661 lower?1662 sinka1684 retreat1690 nip1785 to drive down1840 minify1866 to knock down1867 to damp down1869 scale1887 mute1891 clip1938 to roll back1942 to cut back1943 downscale1945 downrate1958 slim1963 downshift1972 1534 Act 26 Hen. VIII c. 6 §11 This present acte..shall not extende..to..or minorate any liberties..or auctoritie of any lorde marcher. 1628 A. Leighton in Camden Misc. VII. p. vi Magnanimious Henry whom we do not name to minorate the parts of our present Soveraigne. a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 90 Forget not how assuefaction unto any thing minorates the passion from it. 1920 J. Joyce Ulysses Oxen of Sun in Little Rev. Sept. 92 Assuefaction minorates atrocities and Hamlet his father showeth the prince no blister of combustion. DerivativesΚΠ 1623 L. Andrewes 96 Serm.: Nativity (1629) xvi. 154 When was it, that He was so capite minutus? Sure, never lesse, never so little, never so minorated, so minimated..as now. 1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 212 Their design is by quantity to depreciate the value of their bills; and lands mortgaged for public bills will be redeemed in these minorated bills. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?a1425v.1534 |
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