minced, ppl. a.
(mɪnst)
[f. mince v. + -ed1.]
1. Of meat, etc.: Cut up or chopped into very small pieces. minced collops: see collop1 2 c. See also minced meat, minced-pie.
| c 1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 17 Frye smalle mynsud onyone In oyle. c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 15 Also mencyd Dates, Clowes, Maces [etc.]. c 1450 Ibid. 110 Take vynegre and poudre gingere, salt, and cast a-pon þe mynced shulder [of mutton]. ? a 1584 Tom Thumbe 100 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 181 His mother..Into a pudding thrust her sonne instead of minced fat. 1821 Lamb Elia Ser. i. Grace before meat, One who professes to like minced veal. 1893 Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Bk. 111/1 Minced Fowl—an Entrée (Cold Poultry Cookery). |
b. fig. (See mince v. 2.)
| 1581 Mulcaster Positions viii. (1887) 53 Writers make to many, and to finely minced distinctions. 1606 Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. ii. 279 Is not birth, beauty,..and so forth: the Spice and salt that seasons a man? Cres. I, a minc'd man and then to be bak'd with no Date in the pye, for then the mans' dates out. |
2. Uttered or performed in a mincing or affected manner. ? Obs.
| 1545 Brinklow Compl. i. 8 The mombled and mynsed Masse (wherby neither God is glorifyed, nor the hearers edifyed). 1553 Becon Reliques of Rome (1563) 117 The minsed musike that now beareth chief rule in Churches. |
† 3. Diminished; deprived of some essential part, mutilated. Obs.
| 1609 J. Rawlinson Fishermen Fishers of Men 34 A minced and curtall mainteinance. 1695 Sage Fund. Charter Presb. (1697) 216 Giving us only a Minced account of this Petition. 1707 Vulpone 15 [Of the Scotch Representation at the Union.] To agree to such a minced Representative, and give away the Birth-rights of their Lords, Barons and Boroughs. |
b. Of an oath: see mince v. 4 d.
| 1880 Brewer Reader's Handbk. (1885) 606 Mr. Mantalini..is..noted for..his minced oaths [etc.]. |