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单词 enumeration
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enumerationn.

/ɪˌnjuːməˈreɪʃən/
Etymology: < French énumeration, < Latin ēnumerātiōn-em , noun of action < ēnumerāre : see enumerate v.
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.
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