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enumeration|ɪˌnjuːməˈreɪʃən|
[a. F. énumeration, ad. L. ēnumerātiōn-em, n. of action f. ēnumerāre: see prec.]
1. The action of ascertaining the number of something; esp. the taking a census of population; a census.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 629 That holy man did rightly know the enumeration of the sacred Trinitie. 1810in Risdon's Surv. Devon 394 According to the enumeration in 1801, the population amounted to 1600 persons. 1819Gentl. Mag. 529 He produced an enumeration of the inhabitants of the island. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 340 note, In 1740, the population of Nottingham was found, by enumeration, to be just 10,000.
2. The action of specifying seriatim, as in a list or catalogue.
1551Gardiner Of The Presence in Sacrament 21 To multiply language by enumeracioun of partes. 1581Lambarde Eiren. iv. xvi. (1588) 576, I shall not need to make long enumeration of the sortes of executions, which, etc. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. i. 279 The enumeration of Genealogies, and particular accounts of time. 1793T. Beddoes Math. Evid. 34 The definition of a complex term consists merely in the enumeration of the simple ideas, for which it stands. 1858Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Property Law xviii. 136 The enumeration of these circumstances is not to restrict the generality of the enactment.
b. concr. A catalogue, list.
1724Watts Logic i. ii. §2 Though they are not all agreed in this enumeration of elements. 1772Junius Lett. lxviii. 351 The enumeration includes the several acts cited in this paper. 1830Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. 135 We should possess an enumeration..of her materials and combinations. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 184 In this enumeration the greatest good of all is omitted.
3. Rhet. transl. L. enumeratio: A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.
1862in Maunder Sci. & Lit. Treas.; and in mod. Dicts. |