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number verb trans. ME.
[Old & mod. French nombrer from Latin numerare, from numerus: see NUMBER noun.]
Count, ascertain the number of, (individual things or people). ME.
W. Golding Glumly I numbered the things I..had not done.
b. Ascertain the amount or quantity of. rare. LME-E17.
c. Compute, calculate, measure. LME-L18.
T. Taylor Accurately numbering the interval of time from one..festival to another.
a. Enumerate, count up. arch. LME.
R. H. Hutton If..you numbered up the acts of trust.
b. Fix the number of; reduce to a definite number; make few in number; bring near to a close. Usu. in pass. LME.
T. Sharpe The days of the Dean's influence are numbered. M. Spark My days with Mackintosh & Tooley were numbered.
c. Collect (a body of soldiers etc.) up to a certain number. LME-E17.
Bible (AV): 1 Kings 10:25 And number thee an armie, like the armie that thou hast lost.
Count or class among people or things of a specified category. Freq. foll. by among, in, with. LME.
J. N. Isbister Freud numbered in his relations two rabbis. Saki A colleague whose House had the embarrassing distinction of numbering Comus among its inmates.
Assign a number to (a thing); spec. mark or distinguish by a numerical symbol. LME.
numbered account a bank account (esp. in a Swiss bank) identified only by a number and not bearing the owner's name.
J. Conrad One..was numbered 37. V. S. Naipaul I never numbered my pages.
a. Expend (money or time); pay down (money). L15-M19.
Milton His ransom..shall willingly be paid And numbered down. J. W. Warter Days of this life's pilgrimage spared to me..to number wisely.
b. Check, control, or verify the number of; count over. arch. M16.
Shelley Thou delight'st In numbering o'er the myriads of thy slain.
c. Appoint or allot to a specified fate. Only in E17.
Bible (AV): Isaiah 65:12 Therefore will I number you to the sword.
Have lived, have to live, (a specified number of years). L16.
W. Cowper My birth (Since which I number three-score winters past).
Include or comprise in a number; have or comprise (a specified number of things or people). M17.
G. F. Kennan A pro-Allied force, numbering forty to fifty thousand men.
b. Equal, amount to, (a specified total). M19.
G. Greene A full complement of passengers would have numbered only fourteen.
numberable adjective (rare) (a) able to be numbered; numerable; (b) Scot. numerous: ME.
numberer noun LME.