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
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
And from without the schools many cry out and complain: for truth is strong meat, and the weakling stomach turns against it, except in minim doses smothered in treacle.
From A Child of the Jago by Morrison, Arthur
Adonaïs appeared shocked at himself, and swallowed a minim of wine to cleanse his vocal apparatus from the stain of so coarse an illustration.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 by Various
At such an hour as this Malone wasted no minim of strength in futile anger.
From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville
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