minimn.¹

Brit.

/ˈmɪnɪm/, U.S.

/ˈmɪnɪm/

Forms: late Middle English mynym, late Middle English mynyn, late Middle English–1500s mynim, 1500s minem, 1500s minnem, 1500s minnime, 1500s mynnym, 1500s mynyme, 1500s mynymme, 1500s–1600s minime, 1500s–1600s minnum, 1500s–1600s minum, 1500s–1600s mynom, 1500s– minim, 1600s minnim, 1600s minnom, 1600s minom, 1600s minume, 1600s mynome, 1700s minium; Scottish pre-1700 minime, pre-1700 minnym, pre-1700 mynnym, pre-1700 mynym, pre-1700 1700s– minim.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin minima, minimus, minimum.

Etymology: In sense 1 < post-classical Latin minima (from 13th cent. in British sources), use as noun (probably originally short for semibrevis minima or brevis minima , although subsequently frequently interpreted as short for nota minima ) of feminine of classical Latin minimus smallest (see minimum n. and adj.). In sense 3 < classical Latin minimum minimum n., and in subsequent senses probably developed from this (with sense 4 compare use of classical Latin minimus (adjective) in sense ‘lowest in rank or authority’, and in post-classical Latin also in sense ‘lowest in importance, insignificant’). With sense 7 compare earlier minimus n. Compare Middle French, French †minime a minute (of time) (1363–4), a minim in music (c1445), a very small thing (1545), Italian minima a minim in music (1561), minimo smallest part (a1321).In sense 5 perhaps simply an error for minion n.¹ 5.

1. Music. A symbol (now usually drawn ?) for a note having a duration equal to half that of a semibreve; a note of this length. Also in extended use.In medieval and early modern music, especially before 1600, the number of minims contained in a semibreve could be three or more: see prolation n. 2a.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > [noun] > minim

minim1440

minutec1475

half-note1847

society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Franciscan > [noun] > Mendicant

minim1550

Bonhomme1596

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 338/1 Mynyn of songys [?a1475 Winch. Mynym], minima.

a1516 H. Medwall Godely Interlude Fulgens sig. d.ii B. Why was I a mynyme before A. Ye be the rode that ye were and more B. Then were ye a mynyme behynde.

a1527 W. Peeris Prov. in Anglia (1892) 14 479 He markithe so his mynnyms fro þe square, þ^t it shall sownde wronge.

1550 J. Marbeck Bk. Common Praier Noted sig. Aij The iii. [note is] a prycke and is a mynymme.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xii. 198 Our life is lesse than a short Minim in comparison of a whole song.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. x. sig. Hh5 Great Gloriana..Pardon thy shepheard, mongst so many layes, As he hath sung of thee..To make one minime of thy poore handmayd.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 20 He fightes as you sing pricke-song,..rests me his minum rest one two and the thirde in your bosome.

1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 39 A Minime is a Figure like a Sembreefe hauing a tayle, ascending or descending.

1658 A. Cokayne Small Poems 79 His Life was but a Minum, till his prime, When as old Age should last out Sembrief-time.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Measure Ternary, or triple measure, is..where two Minims are play'd during a Fall, and but one in a Rise.

1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 185 A Long and a Breve..differ no more in their effect on the ear, than a Minim and Crotchet.

1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 104/1 [Dot] Thus a double dotted minim is equal to three crotchets and a quaver.

1869 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Counterpoint v. 27 Three minims are placed in every bar, against one dotted semibreve in the canto fermo.

1900 W. G. Mcnaught Let. 19 Mar. in J. N. Moore Elgar & his Publishers (1987) I. 167 I went over this bit recently and having got the metronome rate up to 200 for the dotted minim the Sopranos fell exhausted in the arms of the Tenors.

1949 J. Herbage in R. Hill Symphony xviii. 380 The basses, in strongly-marked minims, announce the bell-like motive which is to dominate the movement.

1977 Y. Menuhin Unfinished Journey v. 103 In the fugue Bach wrote the accompanying theme in half notes (or minims).

2000 Primary Mag. 25 Aug. 27 There are quavers, crochets, minims and dotted minims in this tune.

2. A single downstroke of the pen; esp. the short downstroke used in the letters m, n, u, etc., in court hand or secretary hand. Also more fully minim stroke. Now chiefly Palaeography. †to be in one's minims: to be learning to write such strokes (obsolete).

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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > formation of letters > [noun] > stroke

linea1382

tittlec1384

stroke1567

minim1587

pot-hook1611

dash1615

hair-stroke1634

hook1668

foot stroke1676

stem1676

duct1699

hanger1738

downstroke?1760

hairline1846

up-stroke1848

skit1860

pot-crook1882

ligature1883

coupling-stroke1906

bow1914

ductus1922

ascender1934

1587 F. Clement Petie Schole sig. Dvj Al the minnimes make of equall length... The minnime letters are they, which appeare of equall height aboue the line or foote of the letter, as are the aaes, cees, ees, gees.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1029 Those who when they write a running hand in haste, doe not alwaies make out the letters full, but use pricks, minims and dashes.

1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe ii. i. sig. B4^v She tooke her letters very suddenly: and is now in her Minoms.

1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. iv. 39 Striuing..to make minimes, and such like letters sharp at tops & bottoms, or iust to the proportion of their copies.

1658 E. Cocker Pen's Triumph (new ed.) 14 For Set Secretary... Your minums must be all alike, as the down-right stroke of the a, the strokes of the i, m, n, u, and the first of the w.

1672 E. Cocker Magnum in Parvo 6 Be accommodated with a pen whose nib is in breadth the same with the minum stroke.

a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 293 And so increasing the Minnoms according to the Index of the Figural Number.

1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 254 So far they [sc. the Romans] could easily number the miniums [sic] or strokes with a glance of the eye.

1890 M. Burrows in Collectanea II. 290 Mr. Jacobs reads ‘pointeur’. It might be read ‘poniteur’, there being three minims between the o and the t.

1969 M. B. Parkes Eng. Cursive Bk. Hands 1250–1500 p. xxvi A minim stroke is the shortest and simplest stroke: that used to form the letters i, m, n, u.

1991 Lit. & Ling. Computing 6 24/2 Carrying through to the lower minim line, the crookedness of the vertical bar is not a feature of the ascender alone.

3. The least possible portion of something; a tiny particle, a jot. Formerly also in scientific use: = minimum n. 2a.

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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > the smallest amount > a jot

cornc888

grotc888

prickleOE

prickOE

pointc1300

grain1377

hair1377

motec1390

twynt1399

mitec1400

tarec1405

drop1413

ace?1440

tittlea1450

whita1450

jot1526

Jack1530

plack1530

farthingc1540

minima1585

scintil1599

atom1626

scintillation1650

punct1653

doit1660

scintilla1674

rap1792

haet1802

dottle1808

smiggot1823

hooter1839

heartbeat1855

pick1866

filament1868

hoot1878

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > a particle

grotc888

crumba1387

motec1390

particlea1398

pointa1400

specka1400

atomy1584

moment1594

dust1597

pickle1604

mite1605

atom1626

iota1636

ramentum1658

bodikin1668

part1669

dustling1674

scintilla1674

minim1686

fleck1753

molecule1799

heartbeat1855

particule1889

a1585 P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) 752 in G. Stevenson Poems A. Montgomerie (1910) 182 Quhair evrie minnym aucht to be refuisit.

1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. H2 Canst thou exemplifie vnto mee..one minnum of the particular deuice of his play that I purloind?

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 28 I vary not a minnum from him.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §16 Therefore Tully asks that question, Cur declinet uno minimo, non declinet duobus aut tribus? why only it declines one minime, and not two or three.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica iii. ii. 440 The Red Earth may be more resolvable into Minims, than a White Chalk, or Marble.

1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. x. 343 By impregnating the most generous white wine, with the minims or lests of antimony.

1779 H. Downman Lucius Junius Brutus iii. i. 52 Your praise and blame are equally alike, Nor really add the least, or take away From her a hundredth minim of a grain Of her true value.

1884 Public Opinion 5 Sept. 290/2 He has not the smallest intention of..yielding one minim of the rights and interests of Germany.

1999 D. F. Wallace Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 220 Show some minim of respect for something outside yourself!

4. Frequently derogatory. A person, animal, or thing of very small size or importance. Now rare.† minim of nature n. Obsolete one of the smallest or lowest forms of animal life.

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > of little importance

nekardc1450

man of clouts, king of clouts1467

dandiprat1556

Tom Thumb1579

minim1590

pygmy?1592

titmouse1596

gnatling1614

rye straw1615

nazzard1619

whisk1629

whifling1640

snifty1660

whippersnapper1674

nick-ninny1699

little me1711

squita1825

lightweight1831

lay figure1835

whiffet1839

pinkeen1850

huckleberry1868

bush leaguer1906

knibloch1915

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > that which is small > a small thing

minutea1450

minim1590

mite1594

titmouse1596

moteling1605

atom1633

thingling1652

long-little1653

parvitude1659

bodikin1668

eschantillon1720

niff-naff1808

smolt1808

runt1819

titty-tottya1825

featherweight1838

thinglet1839

shable1842

thumb1854

nubbin1857

speckle1882

teeny-weeny1894

hickey1909

tiddler1937

pinhead1951

the world > animals > animal body > [noun] > small animal

oryxa1382

small deer14..

mite1594

animalcule1599

insect1601

animalillio1647

minim of nature1667

animalcula1716

beastie1765

beastling1789

thumb1854

1590 L. Andrewes 96 Serm. (1629) 279 They be the base people, the minims of the world.

1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor ii. i. D 3 What will ye? heere he is, you minime.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 482 At once came forth whatever creeps the ground..not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde Wondrous in length.

1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum ii. viii. 314 The Minims of justice ought to vail to the Magnalia of Charity.

1761 G. Colman in St. James's Chron. 18 June 1/1 A Make-weight in the Scale of Mortality; a Minim of Nature.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 204 With what a degree of satirical contempt must they..see..minims, the tenants of an atom, thus arrogating a partnership in the creation of universal nature!

1833 C. Lamb Tombs in Abbey in Last Ess. Elia 127 These insignificant pieces of money, these minims to their sight.

1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xii. 314 He must be a minim of a historian who confines himself to those facts only.

1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iv. 228 This insect on my parapet. Look how the marvel of a minim crawls!

1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 119/1 A little minim of a man.

†5. Printing. A certain small size of type; perhaps = minion n.¹ 5. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > [noun] > height of type > names of type sizes

English1539

great primer1539

long primer1553

pica1553

brevier1598

nonpareil1656

pearl1656

small pica1657

minion1659

canon1683

small body1683

minim1706

paragon1706

bourgeois1755

diamond1778

ruby1778

Trafalgar1807

agate1831

minikinc1870

minionette1871

brilliant1875

gem1888

excelsior1902

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Minim is also a small sort of Printing-Letter.

1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Minim,..a small sort of printing letter.]

†a. A term proposed for: a unit of weight, approx. equal to 16.4 milligrams (see quot. 1790). Obsolete. rare.

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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight

weightc1175

M1548

carat1568

killat1580

muttie1672

minim1790

1790 T. Jefferson Final Rep. Weights & Meas. 4 July in Papers (1961) XVI. 664 Let the weight of a cubic inch of rain-water..be called an ounce; and let the ounce be divided into 10 double scruples; the double scruple into 10. carats; the carat into 10 minims.

b. The smallest unit of liquid capacity in apothecaries' measure, equal to a sixtieth of a fluid drachm (approx. 0.06 ml).The measure is roughly equivalent to one drop of liquid.

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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific units of liquid measure > fluid dram > one sixtieth of a drachm

minim1809

1809 R. Powell tr. London Pharmacopœia (ed. 2) 3 The fluidrachm contains Sixty minims.

1846 Littell's Living Age 26 Sept. 597/2 The formula recommended for bread made of wheat meal..is—wheat meal 3 pounds avoirdupois..hydrochloric acid 5 fluid drachms and 25 minims or drops, water 30 fluid ounces [etc.].

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 37 A minim or two of a..trinitrine solution may often be added.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 461 Tinct. mix. vom, 5 minims.

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 29 July 219/2 As premedication, we give our patients 10 minims of Lugol's solution before the examination.

1981 A. Gray Lanark xxvii. 314 He stepped into an empty studio and squirted six minims of adrenalin into his calf muscle.

7. Numismatics. Any of various very small, ancient (usually Roman), bronze or silver coins found in Britain and mostly produced locally.

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > classical coins > [noun] > ancient Roman

pennyOE

quadrant1533

as1541

sesterce1541

sestertius1567

dupondius1601

quinare1601

quinarius1601

sextant1601

triens1601

trient1601

assarion1625

quadrans1654

quinary1728

nummus1771

follis1784

uncia1834

minimus1852

semis1853

siliqua1889

minim1896

1896 W. C. Hazlitt Coin Collector ix. 247 Minim, a term which, for want of a better one, has been assigned to a class of bronze money of Roman type, probably of the fourth or fifth century b.c., which may have been of local or provincial origin, and is of unusually small module.

1915 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 48 201 The small disc referred to above..is not a styca—for that it is too thick; possibly it has been a Roman minim.

1935 Discovery July 196/2 A hoard of 800 minims, small coins in some cases not more than 5 mm. in diameter, buried beneath the floor of the stage.

1971 Daily Tel. 13 July 9/1 Two rare British silver minims, or small coins, of the first century a.d. have been discovered during excavations taking place on a Roman occupation site in Chapel Street, Chichester.

1991 Treasure Hunting Oct. (BNC) I unearthed my first Roman coin... This was quickly followed by three very corroded Roman minims.

Compounds

minim confusion n. Palaeography rare a failure to read a series of minim strokes correctly, causing an error in transcription.

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1981 R. F. Green in Speculum 56 328 (note) Arryed AB: armez F (minim confusion?).

minim rest n. Music a rest equal to a minim in duration.

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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Souspir A sigh..also, a Minime rest in Musice.

1838 J. D. Canning Poems 158 But list, my friend, a minim rest! This day I'm bold to say—Mark Folly with a glossy crest, But Wisdom's head is gray.

1983 New Oxf. Compan. Music 1257/1 For some time confusion existed between the preferred form for the semibreve and minim rests, both of which took up half a space on the staff.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

minimn.²adj.¹

Brit.

/ˈmɪnɪm/, U.S.

/ˈmɪnɪm/

Forms: 1500s– minim, 1600s minimme, 1600s mynnam, 1900s– minime; also Scottish pre-1700 menum, pre-1700 menume, pre-1700 minime, pre-1700 minnome, pre-1700 minome, pre-1700 minume, pre-1700 1700s minum.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin minimi, minimus.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin minimi, plural (in Fratres Minimi : see below) of classical Latin minimus smallest (see minimum n. and adj.).The Order of Minim Brothers, originally called the Eremitae Francisci de Paula , the Hermits of Francis of Paola, was renamed in 1493 Ordo Fratrum Minimorum , lit. ‘Order of the least brethren’, in imitation, and emulation, of the Franciscan Fratres Minores or ‘lesser brethren’ (see minor n.). Subsequently (1502) post-classical Latin Fratres Minimi is also used to denote the brethren. By using the superlative in place of the comparative minores , the new order indicated their intention to exceed the humility professed by the original Franciscans. Compare Middle French frere mynyme (1505), French minime (1609); the form in quot. 1922 at sense A. 1 is probably after the French word. In senses A. 2 and B. from the colour of the robe of the Minim Friars, perhaps via Middle French, French (now archaic) minime , adjective (1596), †coulleur de minime (1595); compare also Italian †minimo in quot. 1659 at sense A. 2.

A. n.²

1. Usually in form Minim. A friar belonging to the order of Minim Brothers (Ordo Fratrum Minimorum) founded, traditionally in 1435, by St Francis of Paola. More fully Minim Friar, †Father Minim.

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1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke vii. v. 142 b The order of Minimes or lest brethren were founded by one Franciscus Paula.

1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. III. 49 The Fathers of the Minimme Order.

1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. xxxv. 232 The Fathers Minims were then come hither to found.

1686 Bp. G. Burnet Some Lett. conc. Switzerland iv. 194 The Minims..live on the great square before the Viceroys Palace.

a1718 W. Penn Maxims in Wks. (1726) I. 825 He [sc. the covetous man] always looks like Lent: a sort of Lay-Minim.

a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) I. xiii. 124 Two Minim friars of the Trinity of the mount..ran to my assistance.

1885 W. W. Roberts Pontif. Decrees Introd. 53 The Minims Le Seur and Jacquier were permitted to bring out the treatise.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 324 Capuchins, cordeliers, minimes and observants.

1994 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Jan. 25/2 There are accounts of..decimo and other unusual formats, the unedifying life of a Scots Minim, and the publishing history of two collections of Greek speeches.

2. More fully minim colour. A dark brownish grey, the colour of the robes of the Minim Friars. Now historical.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [noun] > brownish grey

minim1632

Portland stone1633

stone-colour1663

nut-grey1797

stone tint1833

stone1848

moleskin colour1903

mole-colour1906

mole1908

taupe1911

1632 Minute 7 Apr. in Minutes Norwich Court Mayoralty 1630–1 (Norfolk Rec. Soc.) (1942) 233 He had forbidden all Dyers in this City to dye any other Tawnyes then Mynnams.

1659 J. Howell Particular Vocab. §xxv, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) Minim colour; Minimo, ô color di nocella.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Minim or Dark Minim, a brown, tawny, or dun Colour.

1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 539 Dark browns, minims, and tan-colours.

1930 A. Maerz & M. R. Paul Dict. Color 167/1 Minim, a name used to refer to the color which appeared in the habits of the Franciscan monks in the seventeenth century.

†B. adj.¹

Probably: of the colour of the robe of a Minim Friar; dark brownish grey. Obsolete.

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1620 Edinb. Test. L. f. 284^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Minim(e Ane pair of breikis and doublit of minnome sateine and cloik of minnome taffitie.

1648 Edinb. Test. LXIII. f. 271^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Minim(e Ane minum four taillit coat.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	minim
释义	minimn.¹ Brit. /ˈmɪnɪm/, U.S. /ˈmɪnɪm/ Forms: late Middle English mynym, late Middle English mynyn, late Middle English–1500s mynim, 1500s minem, 1500s minnem, 1500s minnime, 1500s mynnym, 1500s mynyme, 1500s mynymme, 1500s–1600s minime, 1500s–1600s minnum, 1500s–1600s minum, 1500s–1600s mynom, 1500s– minim, 1600s minnim, 1600s minnom, 1600s minom, 1600s minume, 1600s mynome, 1700s minium; Scottish pre-1700 minime, pre-1700 minnym, pre-1700 mynnym, pre-1700 mynym, pre-1700 1700s– minim. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin minima, minimus, minimum. Etymology: In sense 1 < post-classical Latin minima (from 13th cent. in British sources), use as noun (probably originally short for semibrevis minima or brevis minima , although subsequently frequently interpreted as short for nota minima ) of feminine of classical Latin minimus smallest (see minimum n. and adj.). In sense 3 < classical Latin minimum minimum n., and in subsequent senses probably developed from this (with sense 4 compare use of classical Latin minimus (adjective) in sense ‘lowest in rank or authority’, and in post-classical Latin also in sense ‘lowest in importance, insignificant’). With sense 7 compare earlier minimus n. Compare Middle French, French †minime a minute (of time) (1363–4), a minim in music (c1445), a very small thing (1545), Italian minima a minim in music (1561), minimo smallest part (a1321).In sense 5 perhaps simply an error for minion n.¹ 5. 1. Music. A symbol (now usually drawn ?) for a note having a duration equal to half that of a semibreve; a note of this length. Also in extended use.In medieval and early modern music, especially before 1600, the number of minims contained in a semibreve could be three or more: see prolation n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > [noun] > minim minim1440 minutec1475 half-note1847 society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Franciscan > [noun] > Mendicant minim1550 Bonhomme1596 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 338/1 Mynyn of songys [?a1475 Winch. Mynym], minima. a1516 H. Medwall Godely Interlude Fulgens sig. d.ii B. Why was I a mynyme before A. Ye be the rode that ye were and more B. Then were ye a mynyme behynde. a1527 W. Peeris Prov. in Anglia (1892) 14 479 He markithe so his mynnyms fro þe square, þ^t it shall sownde wronge. 1550 J. Marbeck Bk. Common Praier Noted sig. Aij The iii. [note is] a prycke and is a mynymme. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xii. 198 Our life is lesse than a short Minim in comparison of a whole song. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. x. sig. Hh5 Great Gloriana..Pardon thy shepheard, mongst so many layes, As he hath sung of thee..To make one minime of thy poore handmayd. View more context for this quotation 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 20 He fightes as you sing pricke-song,..rests me his minum rest one two and the thirde in your bosome. View more context for this quotation 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 39 A Minime is a Figure like a Sembreefe hauing a tayle, ascending or descending. 1658 A. Cokayne Small Poems 79 His Life was but a Minum, till his prime, When as old Age should last out Sembrief-time. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Measure Ternary, or triple measure, is..where two Minims are play'd during a Fall, and but one in a Rise. 1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 185 A Long and a Breve..differ no more in their effect on the ear, than a Minim and Crotchet. 1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 104/1 [Dot] Thus a double dotted minim is equal to three crotchets and a quaver. 1869 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Counterpoint v. 27 Three minims are placed in every bar, against one dotted semibreve in the canto fermo. 1900 W. G. Mcnaught Let. 19 Mar. in J. N. Moore Elgar & his Publishers (1987) I. 167 I went over this bit recently and having got the metronome rate up to 200 for the dotted minim the Sopranos fell exhausted in the arms of the Tenors. 1949 J. Herbage in R. Hill Symphony xviii. 380 The basses, in strongly-marked minims, announce the bell-like motive which is to dominate the movement. 1977 Y. Menuhin Unfinished Journey v. 103 In the fugue Bach wrote the accompanying theme in half notes (or minims). 2000 Primary Mag. 25 Aug. 27 There are quavers, crochets, minims and dotted minims in this tune. 2. A single downstroke of the pen; esp. the short downstroke used in the letters m, n, u, etc., in court hand or secretary hand. Also more fully minim stroke. Now chiefly Palaeography. †to be in one's minims: to be learning to write such strokes (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > formation of letters > [noun] > stroke linea1382 tittlec1384 stroke1567 minim1587 pot-hook1611 dash1615 hair-stroke1634 hook1668 foot stroke1676 stem1676 duct1699 hanger1738 downstroke?1760 hairline1846 up-stroke1848 skit1860 pot-crook1882 ligature1883 coupling-stroke1906 bow1914 ductus1922 ascender1934 1587 F. Clement Petie Schole sig. Dvj Al the minnimes make of equall length... The minnime letters are they, which appeare of equall height aboue the line or foote of the letter, as are the aaes, cees, ees, gees. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1029 Those who when they write a running hand in haste, doe not alwaies make out the letters full, but use pricks, minims and dashes. 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe ii. i. sig. B4^v She tooke her letters very suddenly: and is now in her Minoms. 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. iv. 39 Striuing..to make minimes, and such like letters sharp at tops & bottoms, or iust to the proportion of their copies. 1658 E. Cocker Pen's Triumph (new ed.) 14 For Set Secretary... Your minums must be all alike, as the down-right stroke of the a, the strokes of the i, m, n, u, and the first of the w. 1672 E. Cocker Magnum in Parvo 6 Be accommodated with a pen whose nib is in breadth the same with the minum stroke. a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 293 And so increasing the Minnoms according to the Index of the Figural Number. 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 254 So far they [sc. the Romans] could easily number the miniums [sic] or strokes with a glance of the eye. 1890 M. Burrows in Collectanea II. 290 Mr. Jacobs reads ‘pointeur’. It might be read ‘poniteur’, there being three minims between the o and the t. 1969 M. B. Parkes Eng. Cursive Bk. Hands 1250–1500 p. xxvi A minim stroke is the shortest and simplest stroke: that used to form the letters i, m, n, u. 1991 Lit. & Ling. Computing 6 24/2 Carrying through to the lower minim line, the crookedness of the vertical bar is not a feature of the ascender alone. 3. The least possible portion of something; a tiny particle, a jot. Formerly also in scientific use: = minimum n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > the smallest amount > a jot cornc888 grotc888 prickleOE prickOE pointc1300 grain1377 hair1377 motec1390 twynt1399 mitec1400 tarec1405 drop1413 ace?1440 tittlea1450 whita1450 jot1526 Jack1530 plack1530 farthingc1540 minima1585 scintil1599 atom1626 scintillation1650 punct1653 doit1660 scintilla1674 rap1792 haet1802 dottle1808 smiggot1823 hooter1839 heartbeat1855 pick1866 filament1868 hoot1878 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > a particle grotc888 crumba1387 motec1390 particlea1398 pointa1400 specka1400 atomy1584 moment1594 dust1597 pickle1604 mite1605 atom1626 iota1636 ramentum1658 bodikin1668 part1669 dustling1674 scintilla1674 minim1686 fleck1753 molecule1799 heartbeat1855 particule1889 a1585 P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) 752 in G. Stevenson Poems A. Montgomerie (1910) 182 Quhair evrie minnym aucht to be refuisit. 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. H2 Canst thou exemplifie vnto mee..one minnum of the particular deuice of his play that I purloind? 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 28 I vary not a minnum from him. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §16 Therefore Tully asks that question, Cur declinet uno minimo, non declinet duobus aut tribus? why only it declines one minime, and not two or three. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica iii. ii. 440 The Red Earth may be more resolvable into Minims, than a White Chalk, or Marble. 1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. x. 343 By impregnating the most generous white wine, with the minims or lests of antimony. 1779 H. Downman Lucius Junius Brutus iii. i. 52 Your praise and blame are equally alike, Nor really add the least, or take away From her a hundredth minim of a grain Of her true value. 1884 Public Opinion 5 Sept. 290/2 He has not the smallest intention of..yielding one minim of the rights and interests of Germany. 1999 D. F. Wallace Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 220 Show some minim of respect for something outside yourself! 4. Frequently derogatory. A person, animal, or thing of very small size or importance. Now rare.† minim of nature n. Obsolete one of the smallest or lowest forms of animal life. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > of little importance nekardc1450 man of clouts, king of clouts1467 dandiprat1556 Tom Thumb1579 minim1590 pygmy?1592 titmouse1596 gnatling1614 rye straw1615 nazzard1619 whisk1629 whifling1640 snifty1660 whippersnapper1674 nick-ninny1699 little me1711 squita1825 lightweight1831 lay figure1835 whiffet1839 pinkeen1850 huckleberry1868 bush leaguer1906 knibloch1915 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > that which is small > a small thing minutea1450 minim1590 mite1594 titmouse1596 moteling1605 atom1633 thingling1652 long-little1653 parvitude1659 bodikin1668 eschantillon1720 niff-naff1808 smolt1808 runt1819 titty-tottya1825 featherweight1838 thinglet1839 shable1842 thumb1854 nubbin1857 speckle1882 teeny-weeny1894 hickey1909 tiddler1937 pinhead1951 the world > animals > animal body > [noun] > small animal oryxa1382 small deer14.. mite1594 animalcule1599 insect1601 animalillio1647 minim of nature1667 animalcula1716 beastie1765 beastling1789 thumb1854 1590 L. Andrewes 96 Serm. (1629) 279 They be the base people, the minims of the world. 1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor ii. i. D 3 What will ye? heere he is, you minime. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 482 At once came forth whatever creeps the ground..not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde Wondrous in length. View more context for this quotation 1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum ii. viii. 314 The Minims of justice ought to vail to the Magnalia of Charity. 1761 G. Colman in St. James's Chron. 18 June 1/1 A Make-weight in the Scale of Mortality; a Minim of Nature. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 204 With what a degree of satirical contempt must they..see..minims, the tenants of an atom, thus arrogating a partnership in the creation of universal nature! 1833 C. Lamb Tombs in Abbey in Last Ess. Elia 127 These insignificant pieces of money, these minims to their sight. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xii. 314 He must be a minim of a historian who confines himself to those facts only. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iv. 228 This insect on my parapet. Look how the marvel of a minim crawls! 1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 119/1 A little minim of a man. †5. Printing. A certain small size of type; perhaps = minion n.¹ 5. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > [noun] > height of type > names of type sizes English1539 great primer1539 long primer1553 pica1553 brevier1598 nonpareil1656 pearl1656 small pica1657 minion1659 canon1683 small body1683 minim1706 paragon1706 bourgeois1755 diamond1778 ruby1778 Trafalgar1807 agate1831 minikinc1870 minionette1871 brilliant1875 gem1888 excelsior1902 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Minim is also a small sort of Printing-Letter. 1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Minim,..a small sort of printing letter.] 6. †a. A term proposed for: a unit of weight, approx. equal to 16.4 milligrams (see quot. 1790). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight weightc1175 M1548 carat1568 killat1580 muttie1672 minim1790 1790 T. Jefferson Final Rep. Weights & Meas. 4 July in Papers (1961) XVI. 664 Let the weight of a cubic inch of rain-water..be called an ounce; and let the ounce be divided into 10 double scruples; the double scruple into 10. carats; the carat into 10 minims. b. The smallest unit of liquid capacity in apothecaries' measure, equal to a sixtieth of a fluid drachm (approx. 0.06 ml).The measure is roughly equivalent to one drop of liquid. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific units of liquid measure > fluid dram > one sixtieth of a drachm minim1809 1809 R. Powell tr. London Pharmacopœia (ed. 2) 3 The fluidrachm contains Sixty minims. 1846 Littell's Living Age 26 Sept. 597/2 The formula recommended for bread made of wheat meal..is—wheat meal 3 pounds avoirdupois..hydrochloric acid 5 fluid drachms and 25 minims or drops, water 30 fluid ounces [etc.]. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 37 A minim or two of a..trinitrine solution may often be added. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 461 Tinct. mix. vom, 5 minims. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 29 July 219/2 As premedication, we give our patients 10 minims of Lugol's solution before the examination. 1981 A. Gray Lanark xxvii. 314 He stepped into an empty studio and squirted six minims of adrenalin into his calf muscle. 7. Numismatics. Any of various very small, ancient (usually Roman), bronze or silver coins found in Britain and mostly produced locally. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > classical coins > [noun] > ancient Roman pennyOE quadrant1533 as1541 sesterce1541 sestertius1567 dupondius1601 quinare1601 quinarius1601 sextant1601 triens1601 trient1601 assarion1625 quadrans1654 quinary1728 nummus1771 follis1784 uncia1834 minimus1852 semis1853 siliqua1889 minim1896 1896 W. C. Hazlitt Coin Collector ix. 247 Minim, a term which, for want of a better one, has been assigned to a class of bronze money of Roman type, probably of the fourth or fifth century b.c., which may have been of local or provincial origin, and is of unusually small module. 1915 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 48 201 The small disc referred to above..is not a styca—for that it is too thick; possibly it has been a Roman minim. 1935 Discovery July 196/2 A hoard of 800 minims, small coins in some cases not more than 5 mm. in diameter, buried beneath the floor of the stage. 1971 Daily Tel. 13 July 9/1 Two rare British silver minims, or small coins, of the first century a.d. have been discovered during excavations taking place on a Roman occupation site in Chapel Street, Chichester. 1991 Treasure Hunting Oct. (BNC) I unearthed my first Roman coin... This was quickly followed by three very corroded Roman minims. Compounds minim confusion n. Palaeography rare a failure to read a series of minim strokes correctly, causing an error in transcription. ΚΠ 1981 R. F. Green in Speculum 56 328 (note) Arryed AB: armez F (minim confusion?). minim rest n. Music a rest equal to a minim in duration. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Souspir A sigh..also, a Minime rest in Musice. 1838 J. D. Canning Poems 158 But list, my friend, a minim rest! This day I'm bold to say—Mark Folly with a glossy crest, But Wisdom's head is gray. 1983 New Oxf. Compan. Music 1257/1 For some time confusion existed between the preferred form for the semibreve and minim rests, both of which took up half a space on the staff. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). minimn.²adj.¹ Brit. /ˈmɪnɪm/, U.S. /ˈmɪnɪm/ Forms: 1500s– minim, 1600s minimme, 1600s mynnam, 1900s– minime; also Scottish pre-1700 menum, pre-1700 menume, pre-1700 minime, pre-1700 minnome, pre-1700 minome, pre-1700 minume, pre-1700 1700s minum. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin minimi, minimus. Etymology: < post-classical Latin minimi, plural (in Fratres Minimi : see below) of classical Latin minimus smallest (see minimum n. and adj.).The Order of Minim Brothers, originally called the Eremitae Francisci de Paula , the Hermits of Francis of Paola, was renamed in 1493 Ordo Fratrum Minimorum , lit. ‘Order of the least brethren’, in imitation, and emulation, of the Franciscan Fratres Minores or ‘lesser brethren’ (see minor n.). Subsequently (1502) post-classical Latin Fratres Minimi is also used to denote the brethren. By using the superlative in place of the comparative minores , the new order indicated their intention to exceed the humility professed by the original Franciscans. Compare Middle French frere mynyme (1505), French minime (1609); the form in quot. 1922 at sense A. 1 is probably after the French word. In senses A. 2 and B. from the colour of the robe of the Minim Friars, perhaps via Middle French, French (now archaic) minime , adjective (1596), †coulleur de minime (1595); compare also Italian †minimo in quot. 1659 at sense A. 2. A. n.² 1. Usually in form Minim. A friar belonging to the order of Minim Brothers (Ordo Fratrum Minimorum) founded, traditionally in 1435, by St Francis of Paola. More fully Minim Friar, †Father Minim. ΚΠ 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke vii. v. 142 b The order of Minimes or lest brethren were founded by one Franciscus Paula. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. III. 49 The Fathers of the Minimme Order. 1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. xxxv. 232 The Fathers Minims were then come hither to found. 1686 Bp. G. Burnet Some Lett. conc. Switzerland iv. 194 The Minims..live on the great square before the Viceroys Palace. a1718 W. Penn Maxims in Wks. (1726) I. 825 He [sc. the covetous man] always looks like Lent: a sort of Lay-Minim. a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) I. xiii. 124 Two Minim friars of the Trinity of the mount..ran to my assistance. 1885 W. W. Roberts Pontif. Decrees Introd. 53 The Minims Le Seur and Jacquier were permitted to bring out the treatise. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 324 Capuchins, cordeliers, minimes and observants. 1994 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Jan. 25/2 There are accounts of..decimo and other unusual formats, the unedifying life of a Scots Minim, and the publishing history of two collections of Greek speeches. 2. More fully minim colour. A dark brownish grey, the colour of the robes of the Minim Friars. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [noun] > brownish grey minim1632 Portland stone1633 stone-colour1663 nut-grey1797 stone tint1833 stone1848 moleskin colour1903 mole-colour1906 mole1908 taupe1911 1632 Minute 7 Apr. in Minutes Norwich Court Mayoralty 1630–1 (Norfolk Rec. Soc.) (1942) 233 He had forbidden all Dyers in this City to dye any other Tawnyes then Mynnams. 1659 J. Howell Particular Vocab. §xxv, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) Minim colour; Minimo, ô color di nocella. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Minim or Dark Minim, a brown, tawny, or dun Colour. 1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 539 Dark browns, minims, and tan-colours. 1930 A. Maerz & M. R. Paul Dict. Color 167/1 Minim, a name used to refer to the color which appeared in the habits of the Franciscan monks in the seventeenth century. †B. adj.¹ Probably: of the colour of the robe of a Minim Friar; dark brownish grey. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1620 Edinb. Test. L. f. 284^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Minim(e Ane pair of breikis and doublit of minnome sateine and cloik of minnome taffitie. 1648 Edinb. Test. LXIII. f. 271^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Minim(e Ane minum four taillit coat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). minimadj.² Brit. /ˈmɪnɪm/, U.S. /ˈmɪnɪm/ Forms: 1600s minime, 1600s– minim. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: Latin minimus ; minim n.¹ Etymology: Either < classical Latin minimus least, smallest (see minimum n. and adj.) or independently < minim n.¹ Compare Middle French, French minime (c1373 of concrete things; 1611 of abstract things in an isolated early use, subsequently 1787), Italian minimo (late 13th cent. as menimo), Spanish mínimo (1584), Portuguese mínimo (16th cent.). Now rare (chiefly literary in later use). Extremely small; of the smallest size; fundamental, elemental. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > [adjective] minim1671 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > extremely small tinea1400 little weea1525 undersmall?1527 little little1542 perpusil1598 tiny1598 punctual1605 minute1606 pygmya1616 exiguous1630 atomical1646 minutulous1651 puncticular1658 arenulous1664 myriate1665 minimal1666 minim1671 infinitesimal1733 minutissim1768 weeny1790 midgety1798 teeny1802 pinpoint1807 atomic1809 homuncular1822 minnow1824 weeshy1825 pinhead1835 finitesimal1836 homoeopathic1838 teeny-weeny1842 teenty1844 teenty-taunty1844 teeny-tiny1849 submolecular1854 teensy1856 super-compact1860 midget1865 ultramicroscopic1870 pilulous1871 teensy-weensy1872 tee-tiny1872 minuscule1878 smitchy1888 eeny-weeny1894 eensy-weensy1904 pygmean1904 ultramicroscopical1904 bitsy1905 bitty1905 totty1906 millimetric1909 miniscule1909 minuscular1911 insectual1912 micro1931 eeny1933 eensy1940 submicrogram1941 submillimetre1954 diddy1963 mini1963 micro-mini1967 1671 Christian Consol. ii. 40 For nailing our great sins to the cross of Christ, and for acquitting us from the innumerable fry of Minim-sins. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xviii. 620/2 [Quick-silver] is a Body most exactly mixt, and its minime Parts do pertinaciously one stick to another. 1789 H. Brooke Montezuma v. v. 337 Of minim man, Who trusts, within his grasp, to hold a world, And finds it, nothing. 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 663 The savage tribes..sent forth their puny fleets Athirst for blood, and wing'd with minim sails. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxviii. 132 A minim mammal which you might imprison in the finger of your glove. 1886 Cent. Mag. Feb. 491/2 This and certain minim stork-like birds are delightful bits. 1903 G. Gissing Private Papers Henry Ryecroft Winter ix. 246 Vegetarian restaurants, where, at a mimim outlay, I have..made believe to satisfy my craving stomach. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1440n.²adj.¹1546adj.²1671
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