parvificare

parvificare [CL parvus+-ficare] 1 to make small or smaller (in size or extent). ymmo possible esset C infinitum in infinitum majorari, quousque infinitum primum fuerit, posito quod C sit corpus lineale pedale, et crescat successive usque ad finem istius hore ad quantitatem superficialem pedalem quadratam, et exhinc crescat successive usque ad cubitum pedale; in quo casu patet quod infinitum primum erit C ymmo sicut bis infinitum majorabitur sic in infinitum, erit primum duabus vicibus, quia immediate post hoc, et immediate post finem in infinitum ~abitur, et tamen continue magnificabitur Wycl. Log. I 214. 2 to make little of, to cause to seem small or insignificant: a (person); b (act or abstr.). a magnum parvificas, inclinas ardua, clarum / denigras, calcas mella, venena sitis Garl. Epith. VIII 653; 1381 seipsos sic magnificant, / quod alios parvificant / multis parvis sermonibus Pol. Poems I 233.  b bona anachorita per humilitatem ~at [ME: leteþ ase nocht wurþ] sua bona opera AncrR 41.