单词 | enumeration |
释义 | enumerationn. 1. The action of ascertaining the number of something; esp. the taking a census of population; a census. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] rimeeOE talec950 numbrarya1382 compota1387 denumberment1455 numeration1533 magnitude1570 enumeration1577 annumeration1604 tally1614 denumeration1623 recensiona1638 connumeration1646 calculate1695 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. iii. sig. Ddd.viv/2 That holy man did rightly know the enumeration of the sacred Trinitie. 1811 Risdon's Chorogr. Surv. Devon (new ed.) Addit. 394 According to the enumeration in 1801, the population amounted to 1600 persons. 1819 Gentleman's Mag. 529 He produced an enumeration of the inhabitants of the island. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 340 (note) In 1740, the population of Nottingham was found, by enumeration, to be just 10,000. 2. a. The action of specifying seriatim, as in a list or catalogue. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > list > [noun] > making list enumeration1551 renumeration1596 listing1659 cataloguing1830 itemization1894 1551 S. Gardiner Explic. Catholique Fayth f. 21 To multiply language by enumeracion of partes. 1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1588) iv. xvi. 576 I shall not need to make long enumeration of the sortes of executions, which, etc. 1611 B. Rich Honestie of Age (1844) 15 He setteth downe (as it were) by innumeration, so many vanities as for breuities sake I will here omit to speake of. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. i. 279 The enumeration of Genealogies, and particular accounts of time. View more context for this quotation 1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature Demonstrative Evid. 34 The definition of a complex term consists merely in the enumeration of the simple ideas, for which it stands. 1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xviii. 136 The enumeration of these circumstances is not to restrict the generality of the enactment. b. concrete. A catalogue, list. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > list > [noun] tableOE scorec1325 billa1340 calendar?a1400 legendc1400 librarya1450 Ragmanc1450 Ragman rollc1450 cataloguea1464 repertory1542 scrowa1545 bedroll?1552 roll1565 file1566 state1582 inventory1589 brief1600 series1601 counter-roll1603 list1604 muster roll1605 cense1615 pinax1625 repertoirec1626 diagram1631 recensiona1638 repertorium1667 vocabulary1694 albe1697 enumeration1725 screed1748 album1753 tableau1792 roll-call1833 shopping list1923 laundry list1958 remainder list1977 1725 I. Watts Logick i. ii. 22 Tho' they are not all agreed in this Enumeration of Elements. 1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra II. lxviii. 337 The enumeration includes the several acts cited in this paper. 1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 135 We should possess an enumeration..of her materials and combinations. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 176 In this enumeration the greatest good of all is omitted. 3. Rhetoric transl. Latin enumeratio: A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > [noun] > recapitulation enumeration1862 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > repetition > of heads of argument enumeration1862 1862 in S. Maunder Sci. & Lit. Treasury ; and in mod. Dicts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1551 |
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