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adminish

adminish verb: to reduce in size or magnitude; to diminish.

Verb (1)

adminish (third-person singular simple present adminishes, present participle adminishing, simple past and past participle adminished)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To reduce in size or magnitude; to diminish.
    • Helth of the body is muche to be vviſhed, yet it is diuvers and ſundry wayes mutable: ſtrength of the body is of many much made of, yet is it by ſicknes abated, by age adminiſhed & vvaſted.1579, Joannes Rivius, translated by William Gace, A Guide unto godlinesse, moste worthy to bee followed of all true Christians, page 120
    • […] theſe our Letters Patents or any Thing contained in them, ſhall not be interpreted or conſtrued to the taking or adminiſhing the Force of Effect of any Proclamations publiſhed hereafter […]1680, The Charters of the City of London, page 117

Verb (2)

adminish (third-person singular simple present adminishes, present participle adminishing, simple past and past participle adminished)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To administer or govern.
    • The chief Magiſtrate in the adminiſhing Relief out of the publick Bounty, was greatly defrauded and deficient in his Accounts.1751, A Pupil of Alexander the Copperſmith, A Visionary Letter to the Freemen of the City of Bagdad, on a Late Election of Cailiff and Scapins, page 11
    • Calis exceeds Dover in begneſs; the market place is a ſpacious ſquare, and the government is adminiſhed by a mayor, and four aldermen.1768, Edward Cavendish Drake, A New Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, page 266

Forms of adminish

third-person singular presentadminishes
present participleadminishing
past participleadminished
pastadminished

Origin of adminish

Inherited from Middle English amenusen, from Old French amenuisier; compare French amenuiser (“to make thinner”).

Questions about adminish

What does adminish mean?
Adminish means to reduce in size or magnitude; to diminish.
What part of speech is adminish?
Adminish is a verb.
What is the past tense of adminish?
The past tense of adminish is adminished.

Words near adminish in the dictionary

  1. adminiculating
  2. adminiculation
  3. adminiculations
  4. adminiculum
  5. admining
  6. adminish
  7. adminished
  8. adminishes
  9. adminishing
  10. adminisphere
  11. adminispheres

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