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Enumerate \E*nu"mer*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enumerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Enumerating.] [L. enumeratus, p. p. of enumerare to count out, enumerate; e out + numerare to count, fr. numerus number. See Number.] To count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a special and separate account of; to recount; as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation.
Enumerating the services he had done.
--Ludlow.
Syn: To reckon; compute; calculate; count; estimate; relate; rehearse; recapitulate; detail.
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vb. (present participle of enumerate English)
Usage examples of "enumerating".
After enumerating these, Scripture returns to the first of the sons, and says, "Cush begat Nimrod.
And, in the second place, they are contradicted by the apostle, who, after enumerating the works of the flesh, says with reference to heresies, "They who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
While enumerating the nations subject to the Romans, he speaks of the Gauls as submitting to 1200 soldiers, (which is false, as there were eight legions in Gaul, Tac.
Cicero, in enumerating the qualifications of Trebatius, says, Accedit etiam, quod familiam ducit in jure civili, singularis memoria, summa scientia, which means that Trebatius possessed a still further most important qualification for a student of civil law, a remarkable memory, &c.
But no general formula for enumerating the number of different ways in which it may be done has yet been discovered.
Louis and a little after, enumerating the different kinds of trial, mentions that of judicial combat, but not a word of the others.
By enumerating these and, I believe, other still more atrocious incidents which his keen sense of the present injustice suggested, but which it is not easy to give in detail, he goaded on the incensed multitude to strip the king of his sovereignty and pronounce a sentence of banishment against Tarquin with his wife and children.