What does minorate mean?
Minorate means (archaic) To diminish..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(archaic) To diminish..
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
Forget not how assuefaction unto any thing minorates the passion from it, how constant Objects loose their hints, and steal an inadvertisement upon us.
Assuefaction minorates atrocities (as Tully saith of his darling Stoics) and Hamlet his father showeth the prince no blister of combustion.
Analogously, we can minorate, replacing sin x with −1, then, by applying the first method it follows that:[…]
Use minorate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Minorate means (archaic) To diminish..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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
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