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matière secondaire
, mineur
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Minor
- (n.) A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.
- (a.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.
- (a.) Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
- (n.) A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
- (n.) The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.
Synonyms:
Child, Fry, Kid, Modest, Nestling, Nipper, Nonaged, Shaver, Small, Tike, Tyke, Venial, Youngster,
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• Minorate
- (v. t.) To diminish.
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• Minorities
- (pl. ) of Minority
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enterprise, hatchet, hospitable, minutely, terminological, hosier, hose, horticulture, hobnob, hobnailed, opposed, tenter, hobbles, hobbies, earmark, accomplishment, tendril, henry, fatten, hatcher, hash, fancy, addiction, precious, militate, mercantilist, mercantile, mens, lair, henchman, lively, hemstitching, |
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Nightingale, You, Love, Wait, Rim, Rime, I, Awesome, Waste, Go, Hello, Which, Forsake, Abbe, Abbreviation, Ravage, Humiliate, Abash, Chagrin, Degradation, Name, Abate, Abbreviate, Desert, Abbey, Abandon, Hang, Discomfit, Dangle, Abattoir, Opposite, Abandonment, |
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