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- Minor - a. - Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
- Minor - a. - Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.
- Minor - n. - A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.
- Minor - n. - The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.
- Minor - n. - A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
- Minorate - v. t. - To diminish.
- Minoration - n. - A diminution.
- Minoress - n. - See Franciscan Nuns, under Franciscan, a.
- Minorite - n. - A Franciscan friar.
- Minorities - pl. - of Minority
- Minority - a. & n. - The state of being a minor, or under age.
- Minority - a. & n. - State of being less or small.
- Minority - a. & n. - The smaller number; -- opposed to majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.
- Minutia - n. - A minute particular; a small or minor detail; -- used chiefly in the plural.
- Signature - v. t. - The designation of the key (when not C major, or its relative, A minor) by means of one or more sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff, immediately after the clef, affecting all notes of the same letter throughout the piece or movement. Each minor key has the same signature as its relative major.
- Harlech group - - A minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales.
- Outwork - n. - A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc.
- A - - The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A/) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A/) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G.
- Merger - n. - An absorption of one estate, or one contract, in another, or of a minor offense in a greater.
- Variety - n. - In inorganic nature, one of those forms in which a species may occur, which differ in minor characteristics of structure, color, purity of composition, etc.
- Abduction - n. - A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable.
- Minor - n. - The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.
- Epoch - n. - A division of time characterized by the prevalence of similar conditions of the earth; commonly a minor division or part of a period.
- Tracer/y - n. - A similar decoration in some styles of vaulting, the ribs of the vault giving off the minor bars of which the tracery is composed.
- Tonsure - n. - The first ceremony used for devoting a person to the service of God and the church; the first degree of the clericate, given by a bishop, abbot, or cardinal priest, consisting in cutting off the hair from a circular space at the back of the head, with prayers and benedictions; hence, entrance or admission into minor orders.
- Jail - n. - A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
- Scale - n. - The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor.
- Copper - n. - A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper.
- Cool - superl. - Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.
- Underaction - n. - Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode.
- Ditone - n. - The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone).
- Acolyte - n. - One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.
- D - - The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A minor), or of the key tone in the relative minor of F.
- Gaol - n. - A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.
- Emancipate - v. t. - To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.
- Subdeacon - n. - One belonging to an order in the Roman Catholic Church, next interior to the order of deacons; also, a member of a minor order in the Greek Church.
- Asteroid - n. - A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.
- Oblatum - n. - An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Cf. Oblongum.
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- G789 Ἄσσος - 789 Ἄσσος - ἌΣΣΟΣ - - Ássos - as'-sos - probably of foreign origin; Assus, a city of Asia MInor:--Assos. - Noun Location - greek
- G2181 Ἔφεσος - 2181 Ἔφεσος - ἜΦΕΣΟΣ - - Éphesos - ef'-es-os - probably of foreign origin; Ephesus, a city of Asia Minor:--Ephesus. - Noun Location - greek
- G98 Ἀδραμυττηνός - 98 Ἀδραμυττηνός - ἈΔΡΑΜΥΤΤΗΝΌΣ - - Adramyttēnós - ad-ram-oot-tay-nos' - from (a place in Asia Minor); Adramyttene or belonging to Adramyttium:--of Adramyttium. - Noun Location - greek
- G773 Ἀσία - 773 Ἀσία - ἈΣΊΑ - - Asía - as-ee'-ah - of uncertain derivation; Asia, i.e. Asia Minor, or (usually) only its western shore:--Asia. - Noun Location - greek
- G775 Ἀσιάρχης - 775 Ἀσιάρχης - ἈΣΙΆΡΧΗΣ - - Asiárchēs - as-ee-ar'-khace - from Ἀσία and ἀρχή; an Asiarch or president of the public festivities in a city of Asia Minor:--chief of Asia. - Noun Masculine - greek
- G1191 Δέρβη - 1191 Δέρβη - ΔΈΡΒΗ - - Dérbē - der-bay' - of foreign origin; Derbe, a place in Asia Minor:--Derbe. - Noun Location - greek
- G2404 Ἱεράπολις - 2404 Ἱεράπολις - ἹΕΡΆΠΟΛΙΣ - - Hierápolis - hee-er-ap'-ol-is - from ἱερός and πόλις; holy city; Hierapolis, a place in Asia Minor:--Hierapolis. - Noun Location - greek
- G2430 Ἰκόνιον - 2430 Ἰκόνιον - ἸΚΌΝΙΟΝ - - Ikónion - ee-kon'-ee-on - perhaps from εἰκών; image-like; Iconium, a place in Asia Minor:--Iconium. - Noun Location - greek
- G2587 Καππαδοκία - 2587 Καππαδοκία - ΚΑΠΠΑΔΟΚΊΑ - - Kappadokía - kap-pad-ok-ee'-ah - of foreign origin; Cappadocia, a region of Asia Minor:--Cappadocia. - Noun Location - greek
- G2791 Κιλικία - 2791 Κιλικία - ΚΙΛΙΚΊΑ - - Kilikía - kil-ik-ee'-ah - probably of foreign origin; Cilicia, a region of Asia Minor:--Cilicia. - Noun Location - greek
- G2834 Κνίδος - 2834 Κνίδος - ΚΝΊΔΟΣ - - Knídos - knee'-dos - probably of foreign origin; Cnidus, a place in Asia Minor:--Cnidus. - Noun Location - greek
- G2857 Κολοσσαί - 2857 Κολοσσαί - ΚΟΛΟΣΣΑΊ - - Kolossaí - kol-os-sah'-ee - apparently feminine plural of kolossos ("colossal"); Colossæ, a place in Asia Minor:--Colosse. - Noun Location - greek
- G2993 Λαοδίκεια - 2993 Λαοδίκεια - ΛΑΟΔΊΚΕΙΑ - - Laodíkeia - lah-od-ik'-i-ah - from a compound of λαός and δίκη; Laodicia, a place in Asia Minor:--Laodicea. - Noun Location - greek
- G3070 Λυδία - 3070 Λυδία - ΛΥΔΊΑ - - Lydía - loo-dee'-ah - properly, feminine of Ludios (of foreign origin) (a Lydian, in Asia Minor); Lydia, a Christian woman:--Lydia. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G3071 Λυκαονία - 3071 Λυκαονία - ΛΥΚΑΟΝΊΑ - - Lykaonía - loo-kah-on-ee'-ah - perhaps remotely from λύκος; Lycaonia, a region of Asia Minor:--Lycaonia. - Noun Location - greek
- G3073 Λυκία - 3073 Λυκία - ΛΥΚΊΑ - - Lykía - loo-kee'-ah - probably remotely from λύκος; Lycia, a province of Asia Minor:--Lycia. - Noun Location - greek
- G3082 Λύστρα - 3082 Λύστρα - ΛΎΣΤΡΑ - - Lýstra - loos'-trah - of uncertain origin; Lystra, a place in Asia Minor:--Lystra. - Noun Location - greek
- G3399 Μίλητος - 3399 Μίλητος - ΜΊΛΗΤΟΣ - - Mílētos - mil'-ay-tos - of uncertain origin; Miletus, a city of Asia Minor:--Miletus. - Noun Location - greek
- G3460 Μύρα - 3460 Μύρα - ΜΎΡΑ - - Mýra - moo'-rah - of uncertain derivation; Myra, a place in Asia Minor:--Myra. - Noun Location - greek
- G3465 Μυσία - 3465 Μυσία - ΜΥΣΊΑ - - Mysía - moo-see'-ah - of uncertain origin; Mysia, a region of Asia Minor:--Mysia. - Noun Location - greek
- G3516 νήπιος - 3516 νήπιος - ΝΉΠΙΟΣ - - nḗpios - nay'-pee-os - from an obsolete particle (implying negation) and ἔπος; not speaking, i.e. an infant (minor); figuratively, a simple-minded person, an immature Christian:--babe, child (+ -ish). - Adjective - greek
- G3828 Παμφυλία - 3828 Παμφυλία - ΠΑΜΦΥΛΊΑ - - Pamphylía - pam-fool-ee'-ah - from a compound of πᾶς and πυρά; every-tribal, i.e. heterogeneous (χώρα being implied); Pamphylia, a region of Asia Minor:--Pamphylia. - Noun Location - greek
- G3959 Πάταρα - 3959 Πάταρα - ΠΆΤΑΡΑ - - Pátara - pat'-ar-ah - probably of foreign origin; Patara, a place in Asia Minor:--Patara. - Noun Location - greek
- G4010 Πέργαμος - 4010 Πέργαμος - ΠΈΡΓΑΜΟΣ - - Pérgamos - per'-gam-os - from πύργος; fortified; Pergamus, a place in Asia Minor:--Pergamos. - Noun Location - greek
- G4011 Πέργη - 4011 Πέργη - ΠΈΡΓΗ - - Pérgē - perg'-ay - probably from the same as Πέργαμος; a tower; Perga, a place in Asia Minor:--Perga. - Noun Location - greek