Jastrow: מִינּוּי

מִינּוּי, מִנּוּי m. (מָנָה) appointment to office, ordination. Y. Snh. I, 18ᶜ bot. (ref. to Ez. XIII, 9 ובכתב בית וכ׳) זה המ׳ that means the ordination (of teachers). Ib. 19ᵃ bot. [read:] מִינּוּיוֹ מ׳ its (his) appointment is valid. Y. R. Hash. II, 58ᵇ top לעיבור הולכין אחר המ׳ to proclaim an intercalation we go by the dates of ordination (the oldest graduate voting first); Y. Snh. I, 18ᶜ המיניין (corr. acc.).—Y. Hor. III, end, 48ᶜ אבל למ׳ ראי וכ׳ but in ordination ‘those seeing the face of the King (the Nasi) are those seated first in office’ (an adaptation of Esth. I, 14), i.e. the scholars of Tiberias, as the seat of the Nasi, have the preference to those of the South; Esth. R. to I, 14 ברם במי׳. Num. R. s. 15, end מ׳ הזקנים the appointment of the elders; a. fr.