ETYMOLOGY
irregular formed on Latin minuĕre to lessen + -ate
EXAMPLE
– “The sole dissent about its composition, is in the tincture of the silk, and the weight of Musk, which some augment, others minuate“
From: A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick:
Composed By The Illustrious Renodaeus,
Englished and Revised by Richard Tomlinson, of London, Apothecary, 1657
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin ūnus one + asinus ass, after unanimous
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1656 – see EXAMPLE below
EXAMPLE
“…Go your wayes,” says he to Dr Wallis and Seth Ward, you uncivil Ecclesiastiques, inhyman divines, Dedoctors of Morality, Unasinous collegues, Egregious pair of Issachars, most wretched Vindices and Indices Academarium….”
From: Elements of Philosophy the First Section, Concerning Body,
Wwritten in Latine by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury;
And now translated into English;
To which are added Six lessons to the Professors of Mathematicks of the Institution of Sr. Henry Savile, in the University of Oxford
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