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minorate

verb

Etymology

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

  1. derived from minōrātus

Definitions

  1. To diminish.

    • 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
    • Forget not how assuefaction unto any thing minorates the passion from it, how constant Objects loose their hints, and steal an inadvertisement upon us.
    • Assuefaction minorates atrocities (as Tully saith of his darling Stoics) and Hamlet his father showeth the prince no blister of combustion.

  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:[…]

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Derived

minorative

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA