deminatured
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]deminatured (not comparable)
- Having half the nature of another.
- c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “Hamlet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act IV, scene 7, page 276:
- he grew into his Seat, / And to ſuch wondrous doing brought his Horſe, / As had he beene encorps't and demy-Natur'd / With the braue Beaſt;
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “deminatured”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)