Word Meanings - MINORATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To diminish. Sir T. Browne.

Related words: (words related to MINORATE)

• DIMINISHER
  One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
• DIMINISHABLE
  Capable of being diminished or lessened.
• DIMINISHMENT
  Diminution. Cheke.
• 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.
• DIMINISHINGLY
  In a manner to diminish.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• INDIMINISHABLE
  Incapable of being diminished. Milton.