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minorate en · VERB

Etymology

First attested in 1534; Latin minōrātus, perfect passive participle of minōrō (“to diminish”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from minor (“lesser”).

Meanings

1. (archaic) To diminish.
   • Forget not how assuefaction unto any thing minorates the passion from it, how constant Objects loose their hints, and steal an inadvertisement upon us. 1716, Sir Thomas Browne, Christian Morals:
   • Assuefaction minorates atrocities (as Tully saith of his darling Stoics) and Hamlet his father showeth the prince no blister of combustion. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[14]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
   • this present Act, or any Thing therein contained, shall not extend nor take place to abridge, deprive or minorate any Liberties, Privilege or Authority of any Lords Marchers 1534, The Bill concerning Councils in WALES.:
2. To replace a term by its lower bound.
   • Analogously, we can minorate, replacing sin x with −1, then, by applying the first method it follows that:[…] 2015, Constantin Dumitrescu, Florentin Smarandache, Methods of Solving Calculus Problems, page 87:

Forms

Deriveds

minorative

Relateds

minoration