minim
Example Sentences
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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
On the contrary, a sorrowful fatality kept them separate, scattered in little groups, and even in the inner circle of these minim groups kept them distant and reserved.
From Pierre and Luce by Rolland, Romain
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
I repeated the operation in exactly the same manner, and now the drops averaged 1/23.5 of a minim.
From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles
It is applied by taking a drop out on a wisp of broom or a small minim dropper, which may be obtained at the druggist's also.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
