minishing

• As he goes southing, weakening, minishing, —  Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses
• Unto the other, minishing the crime. —  The House of Atreus
• And as the ends and ultimates of all things accord in some mean and measure with their inceptions and originals, that same multiplicit concordance which leads forth growth from birth accomplishing by a retrogressive metamorphosis that minishing and ablation towards the final which is agreeable unto nature so is it with our subsolar being. —  Ulysses
• Now these were far fewer in number, the godlike wooers minishing them at their feasts, for the swineherd ever sent in the best of all the fatted hogs. —  The Odyssey
• The priests and knights that repaired to the castle loved Perceval much, for, so far from his goodness minishing in ought, they saw from day to day how his valour and his faith in God increased and multiplied. —  The High History of the Holy Graal

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