Meanings
plural dinumerations
- countableobsoleteuncountableenumeration
I used a technique called dinumeration, where you list off points one by one.
2019, Jermaine Scott, Rapthology: Lessons in Life and Lyrics4 more examples
Seyng therefore, that there is no Dinumeration of tyme with God, it followeth that a thousande yeres with hym, are as one daie […]
circa 1600, Thomas Newton, commentary and translation of Martin LutherWhat therefore do Philosophers number, measure, waigh? All things: yet have they most solemn dinumerations, dimensions, collibrations, ( 1 ) of Heaven, in Astronomy; ( 2 ) of Earth, in Geographie; ( 3 ) of Times, in Chronology; (4) of Cogitations, in Logick, Mnemonick, Prognostic; (5) of Moral Actions, in Morality; (6) of Speech, in Arts Philological; all of which let us run thorow by the by.
1656, Jan Amos Komensky, Gate Of The Latine Tongue Unlocked, page 161I proceed to the Diagnosis; and with this dinumeration of symptoms, I shall take leave of the reader.
1841, Rev. A. Newton, The Conspiracy Exposed, and Rev. S. S. Lattimore Unmasked, page 189[…] this I assert, my lord, ofter a personal and patient dinumeration of their troops and resources: the quod dubitas ne feceris is ever present to my imagination; but as it may not suffice that I possess the esential^([sic]) requisites of self-confidence an self-conviction, I do farther aver, and I pledge my head, nay my reputation and my honour as an officer
1930, Francisco de Miranda, Vicente Dávila, Archivo del General Miranda, page 372
Origin
- Latindinumeratio
- Englishdinumeration
From Latin dinumeratio, from di-, dis- + numerare (“to count”), from numerus (“number”).
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