minorate

English

Etymology

From Latin minoratus, past participle of minorare (“to diminish”), from minor (“adjective”).

Verb

minorate (third-person singular simple present minorates, present participle minorating, simple past and past participle minorated)

1. (archaic) To diminish.
   • 1534, The Bill concerning Councils in WALES.:

     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

   • 1716, Sir Thomas Browne, Christian Morals:

     Forget not how assuefaction unto any thing minorates the passion from it, how constant Objects loose their hints, and steal an inadvertisement upon us.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[14]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     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.
   • 2015, Constantin Dumitrescu, Florentin Smarandache, Methods of Solving Calculus Problems, page 87:

     Analogously, we can minorate, replacing sin x with −1, then, by applying the first method it follows that: […]

Related terms

• minoration

References

• “minorate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Maronite, retinoma, torminae

Italian

Adjective

minorate

1. feminine plural of minorato

Anagrams

• Amintore, ametrino, antimero, artimone, enormità, entriamo, maronite, matronei, menatori, meritano, minareto, minatore, monetari, monterai, normiate, rimenato, rinomate

Latin

Verb

minōrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of minōrō

Spanish

Verb

minorate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of minorar combined with te