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
He was apparently engaged in making sure that not one minim of this most costly liquor was wasted.
From The Nebuly Coat by Falkner, John Meade
Nay, and I wonder less at God's respect For man, a minim jot in time and space, Than at the soaring faith of His elect, That gift of gifts, the comfort of His grace.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert
A little girl of 3 years, bitten by a tiger snake, receives three minim injections every half-hour, and after three of them, whilst in a state of complete coma, gets convulsions.
From On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote by Mueller, A.
He also called upon each householder to show his interest in the work by subscribing, at Pentecost, an alms of "unum obolum ad minim."
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Addleshaw, Percy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
