The Only Use of
minute
in
Antigone
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- A minute past I clasped a lifeless son, And now another victim Death hath won.†
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.