v. rare. [irreg. (like F. comminuer) f. L. comminuĕre: see COMMINUTE and -ATE3 6.] trans. = COMMINUTE.

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1666.  J. Smith, Old Age (ed. 2), 104. It will comminuate things of so hard a substance that no Mill can break.

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1827.  Steuart, Planter’s G. (1828), 203. This treatment … tends to comminuate the subsoil turned up.

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