MINIM

Minim

The Minims are members of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy. The Order soon spread to France, Germany and Spain, and continues to exist today.

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minim

Noun

  1. A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
  2. A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
  3. Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
    the minims of existence
  4. A small fish; a minnow.
  5. A little man or being; a dwarf.
  6. A short poetical encomium.


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