The Collaborative International Dictionary
Minish \Min"ish\, v. t. [OE. menusen, F. menuiser to make small, cut small, fr. (assumed) LL. minutiare, for minutare, fr. L. minutus small. See Minute, a., and cf. Diminish, Minge.] To diminish; to lessen.
The living of poor men thereby minished.
--Latimer.
Wiktionary
vb. (context archaic English) To lessen or cause to seem to be less.
Usage examples of "minish".
But if he be dead, he hath a brother yet, an exceeding mighty man: he will be coming here to vex us and minish us.
I speak too large of that, I shall seem to minish your bounty, O King.
Among them I used to minish myself to the size of an ant and become a pioneer hewing out a pathway through virgin thickets.
Ariosto sings: No doubt they are accurst and past all grace That dare to strike a damsel in the face, Or of her head to minish but a hair.
Court of Aldermen unanimously decided that no part of the agreement should be minished or remitted.
I give, I give to Our Lord Jesus Christ, whose poverty cannot be minished, for it is infinite.
And as the ends and ultimates of all things accord in some mean and measure with their inceptions and originals, that same multiplicit concordance which leads forth growth from birth accomplishing by a retrogressive metamorphosis that minishing and ablation towards the final which is agreeable unto nature so is it with our subsolar being.
And as the ends and ultimates of all things accord in some mean and measure with their inceptions and originals, that same multiplicit concordance which leads forth growth from birth accomplishing by a retrogressive metamorphosis that minishing and ablation towards the final which is agreeable unto nature so is it with our subsolar being.
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