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/mˈɪniətʃˌʊr/ /mˈɪnɪtʃˌʊr/ Listen

Miniature

adjective

Being on a very small scale.

noun

Painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts). Synonym: illumination.

A copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size. Synonym: toy.

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"Miniature" Quotes from Famous Books

... man by agglomeration of all terrestrial potentialities: the labors of Gall and Lavater were, if I may say so, only attempts at disintegration of the human syncretism, and their classification of our faculties a miniature picture of nature. Man, in short, like the prophet in the lions' den, is veritably given over to the beasts; and if anything is destined to exhibit to posterity the infamous hypocrisy of our epoch, it is the fact that educated persons, spiritualistic bigots, have thought to serve ...

— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon

... the half-darkened corner booth the eery stranger was staring at the girl with an intentness that made his weird eyes glow like miniature pools of shimmering blue-green fire. Again Gordon felt that vague impression of dread, as though he were in the presence of something utterly alien to ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 • Various

... bitter desire for vengeance which must animate his bosom. I little fancied at the time that he was my cousin, and that I should be by his side on the field of battle when, in the hour of victory, he cast his last fond look at the miniature of the lovely girl whom he had hoped one day to make his bride, ere she was foully murdered by those who were now about to be driven for ever from the land. But ...

— The Young Llanero - A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela • W.H.G. Kingston

... Josefina was a miniature likeness of Luis. When she had been happy, her face mobile and smiling, and her eyes shining with cheerfulness, it had not been so apparent; but now misery and pain had given to her look a profound melancholy, and to the lines of her face a certain ...

— The Grandee • Armando Palacio Valds

... system that the American government is founded. It is representation ingrafted upon democracy. It has fixed the form by a scale parallel in all cases to the extent of the principle. What Athens was in miniature America will be in magnitude. The one was the wonder of the ancient world; the other is becoming the admiration of the present. It is the easiest of all the forms of government to be understood and the ...

— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine

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