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Nave Topical Bible
• Minors
• Minority Report
• Majority and Minority Reports
Dictionaries
Chabad Knowledge Base
• Minor Purim
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Asia Minor, Cities of
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Orders, Minor
• Order of Friars Minor Conventuals
• Order of Friars Minor Capuchins
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Webster Dictionary
• Minority
• Minorities
• Minoration
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Asia Minor
• Minor
• Minor Planets
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Archaeology of Asia Minor
• Asia Minor
• Asia Minor, the Archaeology of
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Canons, Minor
• Cappa Minor
• Clerks, Minor
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Asia Minor
• Syrtis, Major and Minor
• Ursa Minor
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Asia Minor
• Capuchin Friars Minor
• Minor
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Asia Minor
• Minor, Solomon Zalkind
• Minority
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• קָטָן , קָטֹן

(1):

(a.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.

(2):

(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.

(3):

(n.) The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.

(4):

(n.) A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.

(5):

(a.) Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.