numerate

verb
/ˈnjuːməɹeɪt/UK/ˈnuːməɹeɪt/US/ˈnjuːməɹət/UK/ˈnuːməɹət/US

Etymology

From Latin numerus + -ate (adjective-forming suffix), by analogy with literate. Coined with numeracy in 1959 by the UK Committee on Education, presided over by Sir Geoffrey Crowther.

  1. derived from numerātus
  2. inherited from numerat,numerate

Definitions

  1. To count.

  2. Having numeracy.

  3. Numbered

    Numbered; counted.

    • Which Ratification foresaid is granted by Laurence Lord Oliphant and his Foresaids upon the saids Earle’s paying in numerate Money to the said Lord at the Date thereof the Sum of Twenty Nine Thousand Seven Hunder and 24 Mercks Scots […]
    • Now if the Monads are equall in number to all numerate things, of which the word One is prædicated, by participation of which Monads every particular is ſaid to be one, there will be infinite Monads thus participated.
    • Whereas Patrick Hepburn of Kingſton, in the county of Haddington, hath advanced to us, by the hands of Col. Lauchlan Maclauchlan of that Ilk, the ſum of 740 l. Sterling, in numerate money of Britain; […]

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA