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Example sentences for "minim"

Lexicographically close words:
miniature; miniatures; miniaturist; miniaturists; minie; minima; minimal; minimally; minime; minimis
  1. Rabbi Abhu once complimented Rav Saphra before the Minim by singling him out in their hearing as a man distinguished by his learning, and this led them to exempt him from tribute for thirteen years.

  2. It so happened that these Minim once posed Saphra about that which is written in Amos iii.

  3. For founding the family," replies Minim gravely, and I have sometimes thought a little severely.

  4. But genius and power are so imperial and universal, that when Minim Sculpin falls, we are grieved not only for him, but for that eternal truth and beauty which appeared in the valor of Sir Shark, and the loveliness of Lady Dorothy.

  5. All that Minim Sculpin does by his own talent is the more radiantly set and ornamented by the family fame.

  6. But even Prue grants that Minim has some reason for his pride.

  7. So, if Minim Sculpin is a bad young man, he not only shames himself, but he disgraces that illustrious line of ancestors, whose characters are known.

  8. Yet, I am always glad when Minim Sculpin, our neighbor, who knows that my opportunities are few, comes to ask me to step round and see the family portraits.

  9. So Minim goes on through the series, brandishing his ancestors about my head, and incontinently knocking me into admiration.

  10. A minim of water is supposed to weigh a grain: if the fluid is heavier than water, it weighs more than a grain; if lighter, it weighs less.

  11. The average dose of Scheele’s is five minims, and a minim is about a grain.

  12. The following day a religious minim of the House of Chaillot came to inform me of the state of affairs.

  13. A minim rest' is not much--but the point remains.

  14. But Nym has 'a minim rest,' and during that short respite takes advantage of the absorbing occupations of the other three 'singers' to lay hands on whatever portable property is within his reach.

  15. Turpentine Oil: one minim every two to four hours.

  16. Belladonna: to children choked with secretion give 1 minim of tincture every hour to stimulate respiratory centre.

  17. The tincture in minim doses three times daily in chordee.

  18. Cantharides: one minim of tincture every three hours, to stop hematuria after acute symptoms have subsided.

  19. Turpentine: as diuretic, 1/2 to 1 minim dose every two to four hours.

  20. Ipecacuanha: in sickness of pregnancy and chronic alcoholism; very small dose, 1 minim of wine.

  21. The new surroundings into which he was introduced by the Minim father who had accompanied him and his four comrades from Brienne, all somewhat younger than himself, were different indeed from those of the rude convent he had left behind.

  22. The ignorant and unworldly Minim fathers could neither foresee nor, if they had foreseen, alleviate the miseries incident to his arrival under such conditions.

  23. The instructors were Minim priests, and the life was as severe as it could be made with such a clientage under half-educated and inexperienced monks.

  24. Minim is not so confident of his rules of judgment as not very eagerly to catch new light from the name of the author.

  25. The boy retires illuminated, resolves to follow his genius, and to think how Milton would have thought: and Minim feasts upon his own beneficence till another day brings another pupil.

  26. Milton is the only writer in whose books Minim can read for ever without weariness.

  27. My experiments were made by placing half-minim drops on the discs of leaves, or, more commonly, by immersing them in the solutions; and sometimes by both methods.

  28. Solutions of one part of both substances to 218 of water were made; and half-minim drops (.

  29. The glands of the disc, when excited by a half-minim drop (.

  30. Half a minim of a solution of one part of nitrate of ammonia to 146 of water was next placed on the centre of a leaf; after 6 hrs.

  31. The drops were given on the head of a rather large pin, and I ascertained that each was equal to about 1/10 of a minim (.

  32. There have been Minim nuns (only one convent has survived, till recently at Marseilles) and Minim Tertiaries, in imitation of the Franciscan Tertiaries.

  33. There never was a Minim house in England or Ireland.

  34. In all cases in which the word 'drop' is mentioned in this work a minim is intended, and the quantity should be determined by means of a graduated minim measure.

  35. The mind has moreover the power of prolonging a moment to a kalpa age; as of enlarging a minim to a mountain, and of increasing a little to a multitude.

  36. Pernitrate of iron in from 10 to 30 minim doses is a valuable remedy.

  37. When shaken in a minim measure with half its volume of concentrated solution of chloride of calcium, its volume should not lessen.

  38. He thrummed a little on the guitar; and when he had succeeded in accompanying some little ballad, without falling in with a minim rest or a crotchet one on the way, he was the happiest of men.

  39. The master of the house fancied that he was a musician, but he had never in his life been able to beat a measure in three time, or to observe a minim rest or a crotchet rest, although he used his feet, his head, and his hands.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minim" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accidental; ace; atom; bit; crotchet; crumb; dole; dominant; dot; dram; dribble; driblet; drop; droplet; dwarf; farthing; few; flat; fragment; gnat; grain; granule; groat; hair; handful; iota; jot; least; little; lowest; measure; microbe; microorganism; minim; minimal; minimum; minutiae; mite; modicum; molecule; mote; natural; note; nutshell; ounce; particle; pause; pebble; pinch; pinhead; pinpoint; pittance; point; quart; quaver; ray; report; rest; scrap; scruple; sharp; snip; speck; spot; staccato; tiny; tittle; tone; triplet; whit


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    minimum rates; minimum wage