All 3 Uses of
minute
in
Antony and Cleopatra
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- — Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours, Let's not confound the time with conference harsh: There's not a minute of our lives should stretch Without some pleasure now:—what sport to-night?†
Scene 1.1
- Caesar and Antony have ever won More in their officer, than person: Sossius, One of my place in Syria, his lieutenant, For quick accumulation of renown, Which he achiev'd by the minute, lost his favour.†
Scene 3.1
- With news the time's with labour; and throes forth Each minute some.†
Scene 3.7 *
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Much more commonly, minute and minutes refer to a period of time lasting 60 seconds.
Less commonly, they refer to a measurement of angle where 60 minutes make up a single degree, and where a right angle has 90 degrees and a circle has 360 degrees.