Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Minish

Minish , transitive verb

[Old English menusen, French menuiser to make small, cut small, from (assumed) Late Latin minutiare, for minutare, from Latin minutus small. See Minute, a., and compare Diminish, Minge.]

To diminish; to lessen.
The living of poor men thereby minished. — Latimer