minorate

present singular third person minorates · participle present minorating · participle past minorated · past minorated

1. archaicTo diminish.

   Assuefaction minorates atrocities (as Tully saith of his darling Stoics) and Hamlet his father showeth the prince no blister of combustion.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[14]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

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   this present Act, or any Thing therein contained, shall not extend nor take place to abridge, deprive or minorate any Liberties, Privilege or Authority of any Lords Marchers

   1534, The Bill concerning Councils in WALES.

   Forget not how assuefaction unto any thing minorates the passion from it, how constant Objects loose their hints, and steal an inadvertisement upon us.

   1716, Sir Thomas Browne, Christian Morals

2. mathematicsTo replace a term by its lower bound.

   Analogously, we can minorate, replacing sin x with −1, then, by applying the first method it follows that:[…]

   2015, Constantin Dumitrescu, Florentin Smarandache, Methods of Solving Calculus Problems, page 87