dinumeration

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noun

enumeration

Scrabble 15

Meanings

noundinumeration (countable and uncountable, plural dinumerations)

plural dinumerations

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableenumeration

    I used a technique called dinumeration, where you list off points one by one.

    2019, Jermaine Scott, Rapthology: Lessons in Life and Lyrics
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    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 Luther

    What 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 161

    I 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

  1. Latindinumeratio
  2. Englishdinumeration

From Latin dinumeratio, from di-, dis- + numerare (“to count”), from numerus (“number”).

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