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▪ I. † eˈnumerate, pa. pple. Obs.
[ad. L. ēnumerāt-us, pa. pple. of ēnumerāre: see next.]
Equivalent to the later enumerated.
1646G. Gillespie Male Audis 3 So many scandals as are enumerate in the Ordinance. 1671True Nonconf. 226 All these vain Popish Inventions, and Superstitions, enumerate in this Covenant. 1711C. M. Lett. to Curat 35, I proceed now Particularly to consider our Reformers enumerate by your author.
▪ II. enumerate, v.|ɪˈnjuːməreɪt|
[f. L. ēnumerāt- ppl. stem of ēnumerāre, f. ē out + numerāre to count, f. numerus number.]
1. trans. To count, ascertain the number of; more usually, to mention (a number of things or persons) separately, as if for the purpose of counting; to specify as in a list or catalogue.
For the primary sense ‘ascertain the number of’, see esp. enumerated ppl. a., and cf. enumeration, enumerator.
1647Jer. Taylor Dissuas. Popery ii. i. §11 (R.) If the priest pardons no sins but those which are enumerated. 1671J. Webster Metallogr. vii. 113 Again, he enumerateth eight sorts of Cachimies that were known unto him. 1744Berkeley Siris §244 There would be no end of enumerating the like cases. 1803G. S. Faber Cabiri II. 34 Atalanta is enumerated, by Apollodorus, among the Argonauts. 1816J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 561 The satellites of Jupiter..are enumerated and distinguished in a regular manner. 1836J. H. Newman Par. Serm. (1837) III. xvii. 261 St. Paul..enumerates many of the Ancient Saints. a1856H. Miller Test. Rocks xi. (1857) 469 Adolphe Brogniart had enumerated only seventy species of plants.
†b. with clause as obj. Obs. rare.
1653Cromwell Lett. & Sp. 4 July, Enumerating how businesses have been transacted from that time.
2. Gram. To ‘qualify’ numerically. rare.
1876A. Davidson Hebr. Gram. §48 The other numerals are nouns and disagree in gender with the words which they enumerate.
†3. [? Cf. L. enumerare to pay in full.] ? To bestow abundantly. Obs. rare.
1717L. Howel Desiderius (ed. 3) 76 Prayers that he would ennumerate his spiritual Gifts to this holy Society.
Hence eˈnumerated ppl. a., eˈnumerating vbl. n. (in quot. attrib.).
1721Roy. Proclam. 5 Feb. in Lond. Gaz. No. 5928/4 Such enumerated Goods. 1767T. Hutchinson Hist. Prov. Mass. i. 4 Contraband and enumerated commodities. 1871Census Eng. & Wales, Prelim. Report 6 The enumerated population of London..was 3,251,804. 1864Burton Scot Abr. I. v. 253 That enumerating function of the Roman officer. |