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单词 minorite
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Minoriten.adj.

Brit. /ˈmʌɪnərʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈmaɪnəˌraɪt/
Forms: 1500s Minorities (plural), 1500s–1600s minorit, 1500s–1600s minorite, 1500s– Minorite.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Minorita.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin Minorita (1517) < classical Latin minor minor adj. + -īta -ite suffix1. Compare Middle French minorite (late 16th cent.).In form Minorities (plural) in quot. 1559 at sense A. 1 translating, and probably modelled after, post-classical Latin Minoritis, ablative plural of Minorita.
Now chiefly historical.
A. n.
1. A Friar Minor; a Franciscan.In quot. 1807 in extended use.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Franciscan > [noun]
Friar Minorc1230
Grey friara1350
minor?c1450
Sister Minor1473
Franciscan1534
Minorite1537
seraphic1680
seraphic friar1826
Minorist1836
1537 tr. Original & Sprynge All Sectes sig. C5v Minores or Minorites [Ger. Minores] descende from the aforesayd Barefootes, which be also vnder the rule and clothynge of S. Frauncisce.
1559 T. Paynell tr. Erasmus Complaint of Peace sig. Biiijv The Dominicales are at debate with the Minorities.
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande vii. f. 25 v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Malachias, the minorite or gray frier.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 427 Iohn à Monte Coruino, a Minorite.
1698 Protestant Mercury 27–9 July 1/2 The Minorites are making great preparations at Bon.
1760 J. Jortin Life Erasmus II. 118 Then follows a short letter to some Minorites, who defamed Erasmus.
1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. I. xxi. 233 The ordinary pursuits of mankind are not as innocent as that of these experimental Minorites or Minims [sc. florists].
1883 19th Cent. July 99 The Minorites were the Low Churchmen of the 13th century.
1912 Catholic Encycl. XIII. 611/2 The Scotist doctrines were also supported by many Minorites.
1992 Los Angeles Times 12 Jan. l28/3 The lovely Church of the Minorites (Franciscans) and the statue to Eger's defenders in 1552.
2. A person of minor rank. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [noun] > inferiority in order, rank, or dignity > person of minor rank
Minorite1644
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 9 Our inquisiturient Bishops, and the attendant minorites their Chaplains.
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 102 The Respondent takes no notice that a Bishop wrote the Letter: For why not rather some Minorite among the Clergy?
B. adj. (attributive).
Belonging to the order of Friars Minor; Franciscan.In early use (occasionally) as postmodifier.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Franciscan > [adjective]
Franciscan1536
seraphical doctora1540
Minorite1563
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 70/2 The order of the Minors or Minorite Friers descended from one Francis..of..Asisium.
1598 R. Hakluyt tr. Vincent of Beauvais in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 53 A Frier Minorite, called Simon de Sanct. Quintin.
a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 73 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) There was another Livinus a French man, a Fryer minorite.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 310 On the scite..there anciently stood the abbey of Minorite nuns.
1867 Galaxy 15 Jan. 149 The Minorite friars now began to invent causes for delay, and..to raise up obstacles to the ordeal.
1892 K. Gould tr. L. von Kobell Conversat. Dr. Döllinger x. 245 S. Bonaventure, a member of the Minorite order.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 566/2 Alexander entered the order of Minorite Friars and thenceforward lived in strict seclusion.
1981 Mining Mag. Feb. 119 A friend..sent a copy to a Minorite friar living in Paris, Father Marin Mersenne.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1537
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