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单词 per minima
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per minimaadv.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin per minima.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin per minima (1620 in F. Bacon Novum Organum: see quot. 1844) < classical Latin per per prep. + minima , plural of minimum minimum n.Never fully naturalized in English.
Obsolete.
At the level of the minutest particles of a substance.
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1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. 343 Lett any man reade his [sc. Aristotle's] bookes of Generation and Corruption, and say whether he doth not expressly teach, that mixtion..is done per minima; that is in our language and in one word, by atomes.
1664 J. Wilson Cheats iii. i. 32 Separate the combustible, from the incombustible; the Earth, from the fire..sweetly and with a great deal of judgment, Per minima, in the Cavernes of the Earth.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I If Silver and Lead be melted together, they will mingle and be united with one another per minima.
1758 Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 165 Gold, when mixed per minima with platina, perfectly recovered from it by these means, without increase as well as without diminution.
1844 W. Wood tr. F. Bacon Novum Organum 332 Whether there be any mode of changing bodies per minima (as it is termed,) and transferring the delicate conformations of matter..is a point of which we have as yet no indication.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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