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There was a miniature of a whaling ship in a glass bottle over the mantelpiece.
1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 324:
The twelve days from Christmas to Epiphany are conceived as a miniature of the whole year, the character of each particular day answering to the character of a particular month.
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Scientists have grown miniature human brains in test tubes, creating a "tool" that will allow them to watch how the organs develop in the womb and, they hope, increase their understanding of neurological and mental problems. ¶ Just a few millimetres across, the "cerebral organoids" are built up of layers of brain cells with defined regions that resemble those seen in immature, embryonic brains.
1755, John Shebbeare, An Answer to a Pamphlet, called A Second Letter to the People, London: M. Cooper, page 29:
If it be ever so little removed, or seen thro’ the miniaturing End of the Perspective Glass, it either wholly escapes their Sight, or appears to them a mere Minutity.
1780, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Emma Corbett, Bath: Pratt and Clinch, Volume 2, Letter 67, p. ,101:
The smile of the babe was in my eye, and in my heart. I saw miniatur’d forth, the features of the murdered Edward.
c.1807, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Joseph Cottle, cited in Joseph Cottle, Early Recollections, Chiefly Relating to the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: Longman, Rees, 1837, Volume 2, p. 131,
Now what the globe is in geography, miniaturing in order to manifest the truth, such is a poem to that image of God, which we were created into