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  • noun Plural form of numbering.

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Examples

  • For the events from which the year was named came gradually to be confined to the fiscal "numberings" of cattle and land.

    Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition 1894

  • Squires - bookseller, bibliographer, printer, publisher, raconteur - issued an Arkham House bibliographic booklet in 1985 noting dates, references, and assigning chronological numberings to all catalogs, announcements, letters & postcards from the noted publisher.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Chris Perridas 2008

  • I read once that the first issues of some golden age books were published with higher numberings to create the impression that they were already established titles.

    THE MIGHTY THOR #432 Marvel Comics, 1991 David Campbell 2008

  • The second Captain America and Hulk title, as well as the first Thor title were all started as continuation of others comics with their numberings.

    THE MIGHTY THOR #432 Marvel Comics, 1991 David Campbell 2008

  • Squires - bookseller, bibliographer, printer, publisher, raconteur - issued an Arkham House bibliographic booklet in 1985 noting dates, references, and assigning chronological numberings to all catalogs, announcements, letters & postcards from the noted publisher.

    Antiquarian Weird Tales: More Roy Squires Chris Perridas 2008

  • The most ancient numberings that history has left us are those of the Israelites, which are indubitable, since they are extracted from the Jewish books.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • These seem to me to be all the principal passages that we can collect in profane histories, touching the numberings attributed to

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Palestine made numberings of their people as frequently as possible.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Perhaps you do not know that the Romans passed five hundred years in plundering their neighbors before they had any historian, and that their numberings, like their miracles, are very suspicious.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • This makes me very doubtful concerning the numberings of the Roman people, at the time when their empire extended just four leagues from the Tarpeian rock, and they carried a handful of hay at the end of a pole for a standard.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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