Word Meanings - DISQUANTITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To diminish the quantity of; to lessen. Shak.

Related words: (words related to DISQUANTITY)

• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• DIMINISHER
  One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
• LESSENER
  One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers .
• QUANTITY
  1. The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the property of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question "How much"; measure in
• DIMINISHABLE
  Capable of being diminished or lessened.
• DIMINISHMENT
  Diminution. Cheke.
• LESSEN
  To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, rank, fortune. Charity . . . shall lessen his punishment. Calamy. St. Paul chose to magnify his office
• DIMINISHINGLY
  In a manner to diminish.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• DISQUANTITY
  To diminish the quantity of; to lessen. Shak.
• INDIMINISHABLE
  Incapable of being diminished. Milton.