Meaning of adminish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To reduce in size or magnitude; to diminish.
   obsolete, transitive
2. To administer or govern.
   obsolete, transitive

Examples

“Helth of the body is muche to be vviſhed, yet it is diuvers and ſundry wayes mutable: ſtrength of the body is of many much made of, yet is it by ſicknes abated, by age adminiſhed & vvaſted.”

“[…] theſe our Letters Patents or any Thing contained in them, ſhall not be interpreted or conſtrued to the taking or adminiſhing the Force⟳ of Effect of any Proclamations publiſhed hereafter […]”

“In a Malignant Pleuriſy Bleeding cannot be adminiſhed without danger; tho we are ſometimes forc'd to give⟳ way to cuſtom.”

“The chief Magiſtrate in the adminiſhing Relief out of the publick Bounty, was greatly defrauded and deficient in his Accounts.”

“Calis exceeds Dover in begneſs; the market place⟳ is a ſpacious ſquare, and the government is adminiſhed by a mayor, and four aldermen.”

“The great art of good government, when adminiſhed by the few, or a part of the community, is to make⟳ that, the inclination of the people, which is for the intereſt of the people; and by wiſe regulations, to make⟳ every one act, in the manner moſt ſubſervient to the public good, while he may intend⟳ only, his own⟳ private advantage.”

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