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numbered, ppl. a.|ˈnʌmbəd|
[f. number v. + -ed.]
1. a. Reckoned by number; enumerated, counted. b. Marked with a number.
1611Shakes. Cymb. i. vi. 36 The twinn'd Stones Vpon the number'd Beach. 1628Gaule Pract. The. (1629) 402 This numbred while Christ passed not ouer idly. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 19 An Atom, with the Firmament compar'd And all her numberd Starrs. Ibid. x. 576 To undergo This annual humbling certain number'd days. 1771Antiq. Sarisb., Lives Bps. 149 They..pillaged his house of every thing, and took 10,000 marks in numbered money. 1839Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 281 In future I will keep numbered duplicates. 1895Trans. Bibl. Soc. II. ii. 112 The first use of numbered leaves..by Arnold ter Hoernen.
2. Comb., as numbered account, an account at a bank, esp. a Swiss bank, which is identified only by a number and does not bear the owner's name.
1963‘Han Suyin’ Four Faces 31 He..had money salted away in a numbered account in Switzerland. 1968J. Blackburn Young Man from Lima vi. 61 Numbered accounts in Swiss banks tell no tales. 1972W. Davis Money Talks 136 Italian businessmen, who appreciate this more than most, often enter Switzerland with suitcases full of banknotes and open numbered accounts on the spot. |