minorating

Verb

minorate (third-person singular simple present minorates, present participle minorating, simple past and past participle minorated)

1. (archaic) To diminish.
   • this present Act, or any Thing therein contained, shall not extend nor take place to abridge, deprive or minorate any Liberties, Privilege or Authority of any Lords Marchers1534, The Bill concerning Councils in WALES.
2. To replace a term by its lower bound.
   • Analogously, we can minorate, replacing sin x with −1, then, by applying the first method it follows that:[…]2015, Constantin Dumitrescu, Florentin Smarandache, Methods of Solving Calculus Problems, page 87