Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a number or numbers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to number or numbers; reckoned by or according to number; numerical.
- Belonging to a certain number; included or reckoned within the proper or fixed number.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Belonging to a certain number; counting as one of a collection or body.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to
numbers ornumbering .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She described working as a so-called numerary assistant, performing housework seven days a week from early morning until late at night, and relinquishing her pay to her superiors.
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Third-set dentition -- extra/super-numerary teeth -- are rare, but do happen, and there might be a way to encourage this.
Archive 2009-07-01 Steve Perry 2009
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I heard a numerary once tell about how a prostitute in Spain lay near death, and some of her co-workers asked St. Josemaria to come give her the last rites in a house of ill repute.
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But some kind of super- numerary role at Darling's side?
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They granted him a considerable sum, at five livres five sous the mark, for fear the king should change the numerary value.
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It didn't take me long to learn the coinage, and since I can count to 100, and I'm not totally bereft of numerary skills, I am able to pay the taxi driver, the grocery store clerk, the waiter and the porno shop owner with equal flair and accuracy.
Pizza Patr�n's Peculiar Pecuniary Peso-Paying Predicament 2007
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GALLAGHER (voice-over): Tona Varela has been a numerary for 25 years.
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GALLAGHER: Colleen was a numerary assistant in Opus Dei for 20 years, living and working in its residencies throughout the U.S. including, the one in New York.
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GALLAGHER (voice-over): Tona Varela has been a numerary for 25 years.
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Last month, my friend Monique, an Opus Dei numerary, honoured me with an invitation to attend a traditional private mass presided over by Bishop Javier Echevarria, the visiting Opus Dei prelate.
Latin’s second coming Argent 2006
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After four years at the “school”, Martínez says she was forced to become a numerary assistant – essentially, Opus Dei’s domestic servants, who had to devote themselves to cooking and cleaning for the senior members and priests, while living a life of celibacy.
‘I became like a slave’: why 43 women are suing the secretive Opus Dei Catholic group in Argentina Harriet Barber 2025
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