denarian

Adjective

denarian (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the number 10.
   • He excused himself to his brother, the Argonaut, who reproached him for appearing before breakfast in a well-worn coat, 'it is my ante-jentacular coat, Jack ' ; and answered his apologies for troubling him with a letter to London, by saying, ' I shall put it into the denarian post, and there my...1967, Robert Theodore Gunther, Robert Hooke, Early science in Oxford - Volume 3, page 189
   • play loose when it's only time to choose brother stop playing the goose trapped in a denarian noose1982, Mafika Pascal Gwala, No More Lullabies, page 50
2. (more specifically) Pertaining to a form a numerology that views the number 10 as the most perfect or powerful number.
   • He thus explains the scope of the “Denarian Tract,” which forms the third portion of the work: “The Denary or number Ten, is the highest number according to the largest extent of Nature; or the number Five being the Spirit or Quintessence, joined with its body, the number Four, or the four Elements...1870, Year-book of Pharmacy, page 505
   • the third and last book, is a denarian tract, shewing how to cure all diseases with ten medicaments, and the mystery of the quaaternary and quinary number opened, with a table shewing the suns rising, setting, hours of the day, hours of the night, and how many minutes are contained in planetary...1885, Samuel Halkett, Catherine Laing, A dictionary of the anonymous and pseudonymous literature of Great Britain