numerate — English Dictionary

Verb

1. To count.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Synonyms

   enumeratenumber

Adjective

1. Having numeracy.

   Antonyms

   innumeratedyscalculic

   Broader terms

   competent

   Examples

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   In these days when the age of pulse was giving way to the age of tone. When the epoch of analogue (which was to say also of the richness of language, of analogy) was giving way to the digital era, the final victory of the numerate over the literate.

Adjective

1. Numbered; counted.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • Obsolete

   Examples

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   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; […]

Adjective

1. able to understand and use numbers

   Antonyms

   innumerate

Verb

1. determine the number or amount of

   Synonyms

   countnumberenumerate

   Broader terms

   determinefindfind outascertain

   Examples

   Can you count the books on your shelf?

   Count your change

2. read out loud as words written numbers

   Broader terms

   read