Archaic or technical term meaning made smaller, diminished, or reduced.
From Latin 'diminutus,' the past participle of 'diminuere' (to diminish). This represents a direct borrowing of the Latin adjective, now largely archaic in English, replaced by 'diminished.'
While 'diminished' is common, 'diminute' survives mostly in legal and heraldic contexts—it's the word choice that marks you as reading very old documents!
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