minim
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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
Deinde etiam tempora distinguemus, vt nihil minim sit grassante annonæ sæuitia, multa à multis ad explendam famem adhiberi aut adhibita fuisse, quæ alias vix canes pascant.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard
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.
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
The minim increases it to so fearful a prestissimo as Beethoven could never have intended, since he desired the Assai, originally prefixed to the Allegro, to be omitted.
From Life of Beethoven by Schindler, Anton
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