Definition of minor

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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..

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Oblatum :: Oblatum (n.) An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Cf. Oblongum.
Diminish :: Diminish (v. t.) To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh..
Nonage :: Nonage (n.) Time of life before a person becomes of age; legal immaturity; minority.
Underaction :: Underaction (n.) Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode.
Hickway :: Hickway (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe.
Minoration :: Minoration (n.) A diminution.
Chalybean :: Chalybean (a.) Of or pertaining to the Chalybes, an ancient people of Pontus in Asia Minor, celebrated for working in iron and steel..
D :: 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..
C :: C () The keynote of the normal or natural scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale of the same..
Galatian :: Galatian (a.) Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. -- A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor..
Abduction :: Abduction (n.) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable..
Protector :: Protector (n.) One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent.
Incapacity :: Incapacity (n.) Want of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc..
Emancipate :: 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..
Minoress :: Minoress (n.) See Franciscan Nuns, under Franciscan, a..
Mode :: Mode (n.) The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music..
Balearic :: Balearic (a.) Of or pertaining to the isles of Majorca, Minorca, Ivica, etc., in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Valencia..
Faction :: Faction (n.) A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good..
Epichirema :: Epichirema (n.) A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner..
Hellenist :: Hellenist (n.) One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1)..
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