ETYMOLOGY
from Latin adminut-, past participial stem of adminuere (to lessen, to diminish),
from ad- (to) + minuere (to lessen)
EXAMPLE
“…Bellarmine bewails the business, that ever since we began to count and call the Pope Antichrist, his kingdom hath greatly decreased. And Cotton the Jesuite confesses, that the authority of the Pope is incomparably less then it was; and that now the Christian Church is but adminutive …”
From: A Commentary or Exposition Upon all the Books of the New Testament.
By John Trapp, 1656
‘A Commentary Upon the Revelation’
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