minish

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The flower of thy might lasts now a while: but erelong it shall be that sickness or sword thy strength shall minish, or fang of fire, or flooding billow, or bite of blade, or brandished spear, or odious age; or the eyes' clear beam wax dull and darken: Death even thee in haste shall o'erwhelm, thou hero of war!

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  1. To lessen; diminish; render fewer or smaller. The faithful are minished from among the children of men. Book of Common Prayer, Psalter, xii. 1. The living of poor men [was] thereby minished and taken away. Latimer, 1st Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task. Ex. v. 19.
  2. To become less; grow fewer or smaller. As the Waspe souketh honie fro the bee, So minisheth our commoditee. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 194. The very considerable minishing of the more experienced debaters … on the Liberal side. Saturday Rev., LXI. 67. [Obsolete or archaic in both uses.]

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  • The days 202:18 of our pilgrimage will multiply instead of di minish, when God's kingdom comes on earth; for the true way leads to life instead of to death, and earthly 202:21 experience discloses the finity of error and the infinite capacities of Truth, in which God gives man dominion over all the earth Belief and practice 202:24 Our beliefs about a Supreme Being contradict the practice growing out of them. —  Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures
  • The flower of thy might lasts now a while: but erelong it shall be that sickness or sword thy strength shall minish, or fang of fire, or flooding billow, or bite of blade, or brandished spear, or odious age; or the eyes' clear beam wax dull and darken: Death even thee in haste shall o'erwhelm, thou hero of war! —  Beowulf
  • Confuse and minish in the thing create —  On the Nature of Things
  • To minish the aeons of our state of death. —  On the Nature of Things
  • Do minish the level seas; in part because —  On the Nature of Things
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  1. from Middle English minyshen, minischen, minushen, menushen, menuscn, from Old French menu-sier, menuisier, menuiser, French ménuiser = Provencal menuzar = Italian minuzzare, from Middle Latin *minutiare, make small, diminish, from Latin minutia, smallness: see minutia. Cf. aminish, diminish.
 

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