adminish

present singular third person adminishes · participle present adminishing · participle past adminished · past adminished

1. obsoletetransitiveTo reduce in size or magnitude; to diminish.First known use 1300s-1600s

   In a Malignant Pleuriſy Bleeding cannot be adminiſhed without danger; tho we are ſometimes forc'd to give way to cuſtom.

   1681, Johann Jacob, Institutiones Medicinæ Rationalis, page 68

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   Helth of the body is muche to be vviſhed, yet it is diuvers and ſundry wayes mutable: ſtrength of the body is of many much made of, yet is it by ſicknes abated, by age adminiſhed & vvaſted.

   1579, Joannes Rivius, translated by William Gace, A Guide unto godlinesse, moste worthy to bee followed of all true Christians, page 120

   […] theſe our Letters Patents or any Thing contained in them, ſhall not be interpreted or conſtrued to the taking or adminiſhing the Force of Effect of any Proclamations publiſhed hereafter […]

   1680, The Charters of the City of London, page 117

present singular third person adminishes · participle present adminishing · participle past adminished · past adminished

1. obsoletetransitiveTo administer or govern.First known use 1700s

   The chief Magiſtrate in the adminiſhing Relief out of the publick Bounty, was greatly defrauded and deficient in his Accounts.

   1751, A Pupil of Alexander the Copperſmith, A Visionary Letter to the Freemen of the City of Bagdad, on a Late Election of Cailiff and Scapins, page 11

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   Calis exceeds Dover in begneſs; the market place is a ſpacious ſquare, and the government is adminiſhed by a mayor, and four aldermen.

   1768, Edward Cavendish Drake, A New Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, page 266

   The great art of good government, when adminiſhed by the few, or a part of the community, is to make that, the inclination of the people, which is for the intereſt of the people; and by wiſe regulations, to make every one act, in the manner moſt ſubſervient to the public good, while he may intend only, his own private advantage.

   1781, John Adams, Principles of Law and Government, volume 1, pages 125–126