† minutionn.

Forms: Middle English minucioun, Middle English minusion, Middle English munycion (transmission error), Middle English mynucyon, 1600s minution.

Origin: Perhaps of multiple origins. A borrowing from Latin. Perhaps partly also a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin minūtiōn-, minūtiō; French minution.

Etymology: < classical Latin minūtiōn-, minūtiō diminution (in post-classical Latin in spec. sense (12th cent. in a British source; earlier as minutio sanguinis (late 4th cent.; 11th cent. in a British source)) < minūt- , past participial stem of minuere to lessen (see minuend n.) + -iō -ion suffix¹), in specific sense perhaps via Middle French minucion, minution (13th cent. in Old French). Compare slightly earlier diminution n.

Obsolete.

A diminution; spec. a reduction of the quantity of blood in the body, as by bloodletting.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > [noun]

bloodleaseeOE

bloodlettingOE

lettingOE

minutionc1386

vein bloodc1405

bleedingc1440

blooding1525

eventation?1543

c1386 Almanac (1812) 52 Mynucyons to be made by blode lattyng or ventosyng es ful profytabul.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 154 ^v Þof al, as seiþ a newe lech of oure tyme, it seme þat minucioun be to be done of þe same partie.

1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 17 Holding in his honde a flabotomye of munycion [Fr. flobotomie de minucion] for latyng blood.

1607 J. Carpenter Plaine Mans Spirituall Plough 124 The Phisitians..prescribe..sometimes unctions, sometimes minutions.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Minution, a diminishing or making less.]

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	minution
释义	† minutionn. Forms: Middle English minucioun, Middle English minusion, Middle English munycion (transmission error), Middle English mynucyon, 1600s minution. Origin: Perhaps of multiple origins. A borrowing from Latin. Perhaps partly also a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin minūtiōn-, minūtiō; French minution. Etymology: < classical Latin minūtiōn-, minūtiō diminution (in post-classical Latin in spec. sense (12th cent. in a British source; earlier as minutio sanguinis (late 4th cent.; 11th cent. in a British source)) < minūt- , past participial stem of minuere to lessen (see minuend n.) + -iō -ion suffix¹), in specific sense perhaps via Middle French minucion, minution (13th cent. in Old French). Compare slightly earlier diminution n. Obsolete. A diminution; spec. a reduction of the quantity of blood in the body, as by bloodletting. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > [noun] bloodleaseeOE bloodlettingOE lettingOE minutionc1386 vein bloodc1405 bleedingc1440 blooding1525 eventation?1543 c1386 Almanac (1812) 52 Mynucyons to be made by blode lattyng or ventosyng es ful profytabul. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 154 ^v Þof al, as seiþ a newe lech of oure tyme, it seme þat minucioun be to be done of þe same partie. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 17 Holding in his honde a flabotomye of munycion [Fr. flobotomie de minucion] for latyng blood. 1607 J. Carpenter Plaine Mans Spirituall Plough 124 The Phisitians..prescribe..sometimes unctions, sometimes minutions. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Minution, a diminishing or making less.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1386
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