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To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.

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To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower. -- Diminished, or Diminishing, scale, a scale of gradation used in finding the different points for drawing the spiral curve of the volute. Gwilt. -- Diminishing rule , a board cut with a concave edge, for fixing the entasis and curvature of a shaft. -- Diminishing stile , a stile which is narrower in one part than in another, as in many glazed doors. Syn. -- To decrease; lessen; abate; reduce; contract; curtail; impair; degrade. See Decrease. (more info) 1. To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase. Not diminish, but rather increase, the debt. Barrow. 2. To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken. This doth nothing diminish their opinion. Robynson . I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. Ezek. xxix. 15. O thou . . . at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads. Milton.

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  • REVERSED
    Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
  • DIMINISH
    To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
  • ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
    1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
  • EPITOMIZER
    An epitomist. Burton.
  • REDUCEMENT
    Reduction. Milton.
  • TRACTORATION
    See PERKINISM
  • SUPPRESSOR
    One who suppresses.
  • ENLARGEMENT
    1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
  • RAISE
    To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
  • RESTRICT
    Restricted.
  • ABATER
    One who, or that which, abates.
  • CONTRACTIBLE
    Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
  • RAISED
    1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
  • TRACTITE
    A Tractarian.
  • LOWERMOST
    Lowest.
  • CANCELLATE
    Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
  • DIMINISHER
    One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
  • REDUCE
    To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
  • LESSENER
    One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers .
  • EXTENDLESSNESS
    Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
  • WILLOWER
    A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
  • WINDFLOWER
    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
  • APPRAISER
    One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
  • INTRACTABILITY
    The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
  • FLOWERY-KIRTLED
    Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
  • REINCREASE
    To increase again.
  • CAULIFLOWER
    An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
  • SUPREMITY
    Supremacy. Fuller.
  • FLOWER-DE-LUCE
    A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
  • MISRAISE
    To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
  • PRAISEWORTHINESS
    The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
  • SEDUCEMENT
    1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
  • REDIMINISH
    To diminish again.
  • WALLOWER
    A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
  • EREMITE
    A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.
  • INTERMINATED
    Interminable; interminate; endless; unending. Akenside.

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