dinumeration

dinumeration

English

Etymology

From Latin dinumeratio, from di-, dis- + numerare (“to count”), from numerus (“number”).

Noun

dinumeration (countable and uncountable, plural dinumerations)

1. (obsolete) enumeration
   • circa 1600, Thomas Newton, commentary and translation of Martin Luther:

     Seyng therefore, that there is no Dinumeration of tyme with God, it followeth that a thousande yeres with hym, are as one daie […]

   • 1656, Jan Amos Komensky, Gate Of The Latine Tongue Unlocked, page 161:

     What therefore do Philosophers number, measure, waigh? All things: yet have they most solemn dinumerations, dimensions, collibrations, ( 1 ) of Heaven, in Astronomy; ( 2 ) of Earth, in Geographie; ( 3 ) of Times, in Chronology; (4) of Cogitations, in Logick, Mnemonick, Prognostic; (5) of Moral Actions, in Morality; (6) of Speech, in Arts Philological; all of which let us run thorow by the by.

   • 1841, Rev. A. Newton, The Conspiracy Exposed, and Rev. S. S. Lattimore Unmasked, page 189:

     I proceed to the Diagnosis; and with this dinumeration of symptoms, I shall take leave of the reader.

   • 1930, Francisco de Miranda, ‎Vicente Dávila, Archivo del General Miranda, page 372:

     […] this I assert, my lord, ofter a personal and patient dinumeration of their troops and resources: the quod dubitas ne feceris is ever present to my imagination; but as it may not suffice that I possess the esential^[sic] requisites of self-confidence an self-conviction, I do farther aver, and I pledge my head, nay my reputation and my honour as an officer

   • 2019, Jermaine Scott, Rapthology: Lessons in Life and Lyrics:

     I used a technique called dinumeration, where you list off points one by one.