minim
see also: Minim
Etymology
Minim
Etymology
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see also: Minim
Etymology
From French minime.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˈmɪ.nɪm/
minim (plural minims)
- (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
- A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1⁄60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
- A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
- Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
- the minims of existence
- (zoology) The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
- A little man or being; a dwarf.
- 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC ↗:
- These as a line thir[sic] long dimension drew,
Streaking the ground with sinuous trace;
not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde
Wondrous in length and corpulence […]
- A small fish; a minnow.
- A short poetical encomium.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:
- To make one minim of thy poor handmaid
Minim
Etymology
See minimum ("least"); so called to humble them even below the Franciscans, or "friars minor".
Nounminim (plural minims)
- A member of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy.
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