numerate

Verb

numerate (third-person singular simple present numerates, present participle numerating, simple past and past participle numerated)

1. (transitive) To count.

   Synonyms:

   count, enumerate, number

Adjective (1)

UK/ˈnjuːməɹət/US/ˈnuːməɹət/

numerate (comparative more numerate, superlative most numerate)

1. Having numeracy.
   • 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.2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 8

   Antonyms:

   innumerate, dyscalculic

Adjective (2)

numerate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Numbered; counted.
   • 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 […]1623 (compiled 1750–1751), “Genealogy of the Oliphants”, in James Toshach Clark, editor, compiled by Walter MacFarlane, Genealogical Collections Concerning Families in Scotland, […] (Publications of...
   • 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.1659–1660, Thomas Stanley, “[Of Physick.] Chap[ter] XVIII. Of Number.”, in The History of Philosophy, the Third and Last Volume, […], volume III, London: […] Humphrey Moseley, and Thomas Dring, […]...