denarian

D2E1N1A1R1I1A1N1
UK/dɪˈnɛəɹi.ən/US/dɪˈnɛɹi.ən/

adjective

Pertaining to the number 10.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

adjectivedenarian (not comparable)
  1. not comparablePertaining to the number 10.

    play loose when it's only time to choose brother stop playing the goose trapped in a denarian noose

    1982, Mafika Pascal Gwala, No More Lullabies, page 50
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    He excused himself to his brother, the Argonaut, who reproached him for appearing before breakfast in a well-worn coat, 'it is my ante-jentacular coat, Jack ' ; and answered his apologies for troubling him with a letter to London, by saying, ' I shall put it into the denarian post, and there my trouble will end;.

    1967, Robert Theodore Gunther, Robert Hooke, Early science in Oxford - Volume 3, page 189
  2. not comparablemore specificallyPertaining to a form a numerology that views the number 10 as the most perfect or powerful number.

    The alchemical relevance of these seemingly extraneous and logically defective speculations is indicated by Dee's somewhat baffling conclusion that Sun and Moon contained in the monad desire their elements, in which there is a strong denarian proportion, to be separated by means of fire.

    1993, Dennis Poupard, James E. Person, Mark Scott, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, page 12
    2 more examples

    He thus explains the scope of the “Denarian Tract,” which forms the third portion of the work: “The Denary or number Ten, is the highest number according to the largest extent of Nature; or the number Five being the Spirit or Quintessence, joined with its body, the number Four, or the four Elements made pure, out of this number Nine, or by the conjunction of Four and Five, the sum of perfection is brought forth, which is the number Ten.

    1870, Year-book of Pharmacy, page 505

    the third and last book, is a denarian tract, shewing how to cure all diseases with ten medicaments, and the mystery of the quaaternary and quinary number opened, with a table shewing the suns rising, setting, hours of the day, hours of the night, and how many minutes are contained in planetary hour both day and night, with a table of the signs continuance on the ascendant, fitted for magical uses, as gathering of herbs, roots, and the like, with their uses;

    1885, Samuel Halkett, Catherine Laing, A dictionary of the anonymous and pseudonymous literature of Great Britain

Origin

  1. Latindēnārius“of the number ten”
  2. Englishdenarian

From Latin dēnārius (“of the number ten”), from dēnī (“ten each”), from decem (“ten”) + -an.

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