adminishing
adminishing is the present participle and gerund of adminish.
Meaning of adminish
Verb (1)
adminish (third-person singular simple present adminishes, present participle adminishing, simple past and past participle adminished)
- 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
Verb (2)
adminish (third-person singular simple present adminishes, present participle adminishing, simple past and past participle adminished)
- 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
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