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MINCE, v.t. mins. [L. minuo, to diminish; L. minor, smaller; minuo, to diminish; Gr. small, slender; to diminish; L. minutus, minute.

1. To cut or chop into very small pieces; as, to mince meat.

2. To diminish in speaking; to retrench, cut off or omit a part for the purpose of suppressing the truth; to extenuate in representation.

I know no way to mince it in love, but to say directly, I love you.

Siren, now mince the sin,

And mollify damnation with a phrase--

If, to mince his meaning, I had either omitted some part of what he said, or taken from the strength of his expression, I certainly had wronged him.

These--were forced to mince the matter.

3. To speak with affected softness; to clip words; not to utter the full sound.

4. To walk with short or diminished steps.

MINCE, v.i. To walk with short steps; to walk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.

I'll turn two mincing steps

Into a manly stride.

Because the daughters of Zion are haughty--

walking and mincing as they go. Is.3.

1. To speak softly, or with affected nicety.


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MINCE, v.t. mins. [L. minuo, to diminish; L. minor, smaller; minuo, to diminish; Gr. small, slender; to diminish; L. minutus, minute.

1. To cut or chop into very small pieces; as, to mince meat.

2. To diminish in speaking; to retrench, cut off or omit a part for the purpose of suppressing the truth; to extenuate in representation.

I know no way to mince it in love, but to say directly, I love you.

Siren, now mince the sin,

And mollify damnation with a phrase--

If, to mince his meaning, I had either omitted some part of what he said, or taken from the strength of his expression, I certainly had wronged him.

These--were forced to mince the matter.

3. To speak with affected softness; to clip words; not to utter the full sound.

4. To walk with short or diminished steps.

MINCE, v.i. To walk with short steps; to walk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.

I'll turn two mincing steps

Into a manly stride.

Because the daughters of Zion are haughty--

walking and mincing as they go. Is.3.

1. To speak softly, or with affected nicety.

MINCE, v.i.

  1. To walk with short steps; to walk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner. I'll turn two mincing steps / Into a manly stride. – Sheik. Because the daughters of Zion are haughty-walking and mincing as they go. – Is. iii.
  2. To speak softly; or with affected nicety. – Dryden.

MINCE, v.t. [mins; Sax. minsιan, from the root of L. minuo, to diminish; W. main, Arm. moon, Fr. menu, mince, Ir. min, mion, small, fine; L. minor, smaller; minuo, to diminish; Gr. μινος, small, slender; μινυθω, to diminish; L. minutus, minute; Sw. minska, to diminish; Ar. مَنَّ manna, to weaken, to diminish. Class Mn, No. 5.]

  1. To cut or chop into very small pieces; as, to mince meat. – Dryden.
  2. To diminish in speaking; to retrench, cut off or omit a part for the purpose of suppressing the truth; to extenuate in representation. I know no way to mince it in love, but to say directly, I love you. – Shak. Siren, now mince the sin, / And mollify damnation with a phrase. – Dryden If, to mince his meaning, I had either omitted some part of what he said, or taken from the strength of his expression, I certainly had wronged him. – Dryden. These – were forced to mince the matter. – Woodward.
  3. To speak with affected softness; to clip words; not to utter the full sound. – Shak.
  4. To walk with short or diminished steps.

Mince
  1. To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat.

    Bacon.
  2. To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.

    The daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, . . . mincing as they go. Is. iii. 16.

    I 'll . . . turn two mincing steps
    Into a manly stride.     Shak.

  3. A short, precise step; an affected manner.
  4. To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of.

    I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say -- "I love you." Shak.

    Siren, now mince the sin,
    And mollify damnation with a phrase.     Dryden.

    If, to mince his meaning, I had either omitted some part of what he said, or taken from the strength of his expression, I certainly had wronged him. Dryden.

  5. To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
  6. To affect; to make a parade of.

    [R.] Shak.
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Mince

MINCE, verb transitive mins. [Latin minuo, to diminish; Latin minor, smaller; minuo, to diminish; Gr. small, slender; to diminish; Latin minutus, minute.

1. To cut or chop into very small pieces; as, to mince meat.

2. To diminish in speaking; to retrench, cut off or omit a part for the purpose of suppressing the truth; to extenuate in representation.

I know no way to mince it in love, but to say directly, I love you.

Siren, now mince the sin,

And mollify damnation with a phrase--

If, to mince his meaning, I had either omitted some part of what he said, or taken from the strength of his expression, I certainly had wronged him.

These--were forced to mince the matter.

3. To speak with affected softness; to clip words; not to utter the full sound.

4. To walk with short or diminished steps.

MINCE, verb intransitive To walk with short steps; to walk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.

I'll turn two mincing steps

Into a manly stride.

Because the daughters of Zion are haughty--

walking and mincing as they go. Isaiah 3:1.

1. To speak softly, or with affected nicety.

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