minim
Example Sentences
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What they meant was that Meredith Willson, 63, was a missed minim who didn't belong on the council.
From Time Magazine Archive
Adonaïs appeared shocked at himself, and swallowed a minim of wine to cleanse his vocal apparatus from the stain of so coarse an illustration.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 by Various
No doubt there are abject specimens of the visionary, as there is a minim mammal which you might imprison in the finger of your glove.
From Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Crotchet, kroch′et, n. a hook: a note in music, equal to half a minim, : a crooked or perverse fancy: a whim, or conceit.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
At such an hour as this Malone wasted no minim of strength in futile anger.
From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck
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