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In some senses, minorate is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
minorate
verb 2
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1MINORATE + NOUN
liberties, privilege
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verb
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.
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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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
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Forget not how assuefaction unto any thing minorates the passion from it, how constant Objects loose their hints, and steal an inadvertisement upon us.
Wiktionary03
Assuefaction minorates atrocities (as Tully saith of his darling Stoics) and Hamlet his father showeth the prince no blister of combustion.
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