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blowing of the filver trumpets, chap. viii. ix. x. concern¬ 
ing meat-offerings, drink-offerings, heave-offerings, fin- 
offerings, breach of fabbath, &c. chap. xv. concerning 
the office and portion of the priefts and levites, and the 
purification from the uncleannefs of dead bodies, chap, 
xviii. xix. concerning the offerings at feftivals; and con¬ 
cerning vows, manflayers, cities of refuge, chap, xxviii. 
xxix. xxx. xxxv. and concerning the marriage of heic- 
eftes, chap, xxviii. xxxvi. Brown's DiEt. of the Bible. 
NUM'BLES, f. [ nombles, Fr.] The entrails of a deer. 
—His glorious heart, as it were numbles, chopped in pieces. 
Sir T. Elyot's Gov. 
NUM'BNESS, f. Torpor; interruption of action and 
fenfation ; deadnefs ; ftupefadtion.—Silence is worfe than 
the fierce!!: and loudeft accufations ; fince ft may proceed 
from a kind of numbnefs or ftupidity of confidence, and 
an abfolute dominion obtained by fin over the foul, fo 
that it fliall not fo much as dare to complain or make a 
ftir. South. 
Till fedentary numbnefs cra/e my limbs 
To a contemptible old age obfcure. Milton's S. A. 
NUM’EL'LAyf. Among the Romans, an engine of wood 
ufed in punifhing offenders, whole necks and feet were 
made faff in it. Numella was likewife ufed to denote 
a rope or cord made of raw ox-hides to bind beads with. 
Chambers. 
NUME'NIA. See Neomenia, vol. xvi. p. 711. 
NUME'NIUS, a Greek philofopher of the Platonic 
fchool, who is fuppofed to have flourifhed underthe reign 
of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was born at Apamea in 
Syria. He is faid to have been eminent for wifdom, and 
is mentioned with refpeft both by Plotinus and Origen. 
Of the works which he wrote, none are now extant, ex¬ 
cepting fome fragments preferved by Eufebius, Theodo- 
ret, and Clemens Alexandrinus. He is faid to have main¬ 
tained that Plato borrowed from Mofes what headvanced 
concerning God, and the creation of the world. Enfield's 
Hift. Phil, vol: ii. 
NU'MEBABLE, adj. [numerabilis , Latin.] Capable to 
be numbered. Huloet. —Sonumerousin iffands as they are 
fcarce numerable. Sir T. Herbert's Trav. 
NU'MERAL, adj. [Fr. from numerus, Lat.] Relating 
to number, confiding of number.—Some who cannot re¬ 
tain the leveral combinations of numbers in their diftindt 
orders, and the dependance of fo long a train of numeral 
progreflions, are not able all their life-time regularly to 
go over any moderate feries of numbers. Loclte. 
NU'MERAL, f. A numeral character or letter.—The 
learned Ur. Wallis, of Oxford, delivers it as his opinion, 
that the Indian or Arabick numerals were brought into 
Europe, together with other Arabick learning, about the 
middle of the tenth century, if not looner. AJ'tle's Orig. 
and Progr. of Writing. 
NU'MERALLY, adv. According to number.—The 
blafts and undulary breaths thereof maintain no certainty 
in their courfe ; nor are they numerally feared by navi¬ 
gators. Brown's Vulg. Err. 
NU'MERARY, adj. Any thing belonging to a certain 
number.—A lupermimerary canon, when he obtains a pre¬ 
bend, becomes a numerury canon. Ayliffe’s Par ergon. 
To NU'MERATE, v. n. To reckon ; to calculate.—A 
boy of eight years old, who can barely read writing, and 
numerate well, is qualified, by means of the guide, to teach 
the four firft rules of arithmetic. Lancafier. 
NUMER A'TION, f. [Fr. from numeratio, Lat.] The 
art of numbering.— Numeration is but.(till the adding of 
one unit more, and giving to the whole a new name or 
fign, whereby to know it from thofe before and after. 
Loclte. —Number contained.—In the legs or organs of 
progreffion in animals we may obferve an equality of 
length, and parity of numeration. Brown. —The rule of 
arithmetic which teaches the notation of numbers, and 
method of reading numbers regularly noted. 
NU'MERATOR, f. [Latin.] He that numbers. In 
N U M 
fpeaking of fradtions, itfignifies the Dumber which (hows 
how many of thole parts, which the integer is fuppofed 
to be divided into, are expreffed by the fradlion. Thus 
■/g exprefles feven-tenths, where feven is the numerator 
and ten the denominator. 
NUMER I A'NUS (Marcus Aurelius), emperor of Rome 
for a ffiort time, A. D. 282, 3. See the article Romb. 
NUMER'IC, or Numerical, adj. [from numerus, Lat.] 
Numeral; denoting number; pertaining to numbers.— 
The numerical characters are helps to the memory, tore- 
cord and retain the feveral ideas about which the demon- 
ftration is made. Locke. —The fame not only in kind and 
fpecies, but number.—Contemplate upon his aftoniffiing 
works, particularly in the refurredtion and reparation of 
the fame numerical body, by a re-union of all the fcat- 
tered parts. South. 
This is the fame numerick crew, 
Which we fo lately did fubdue. Hudibras. 
Shew me the fame numerick flea 
That bit your neck but yefterday. Swift to Delany. 
NUMERICALLY, adv. With refpeft to famenefs in 
number.— I muff think it improbable, that the fulphur 
of antimony would be but numerically different from the 
diltilled butter or oil of rofes. Boyle. 
NU'MERIST, J\ One that deals in numbers.—We 
cannot aflign a refpedlive fatality unto each, which is con¬ 
cordant unto the doctrine of the numerijls. Brown. 
NU'MERO, f. [Italian.] A term prefixed to any num¬ 
ber of things ; marked or abbreviated thus, N°. 
De Numero, i. e. by tale, is ufed in ancient authors for 
the payment, e. gr. of a pound in a certain number of 
pieces, viz. twenty (hillings. In contradiftindtion to 
libra penfa, or a pound weighed out. 
NUMEROS'ITY, f. [from numerofus, Lat.] Number; 
the ftate of being numerous.—Of affertion, if numerofity 
of afferters were a fufficient demonftration, we might, 
fit down herein as an unqueftionable truth. Brown's 
Vulg. Err. 
It feems unlikely that the comets be 
Synods of ftars that in wide heaven ftray ; 
Their fmallnefs eke and numerofity, 
Encreafeth doubt, and leffens probability. More. 
Harmony: numerous flow.—The numerofity of the fen- 
tence pleafed the ear. Parr on Education. 
NU'MEROUS, adj. Containing many; ponfifting of 
many; not few; many.—Queen Elizabeth was not fo 
much obferved for having a numerous as a wife council. 
Bacon. 
We reach our foes, 
Who now appear fo numerous and bold. Waller. 
Harmonious ; coniifting of parts rightly numbered ; me¬ 
lodious; mufical.—His verfes are fo numerous, fo various, 
and fo harmonious, that only Virgil, whom he profeffedly 
imitated, has furpaffed him. Dryden. —The love of har¬ 
mony is in man a natural paffion, there is fomething me¬ 
trical and numerous in his motions. Langhorne's Solyman 
and Almena, ch. iv. 
Thy heart, no ruder than the rugged done, 
I might, like Orpheus, with my numerous moan. 
Melt to companion. Waller. 
NU'MEROUSNESS, f. The quality or ftate of being 
numerous.—The numeroujiiejs of thefe holy houfes may 
eafily be granted, feeing that a very few make up a Jewilh 
congregation. L. Addijon's State of the Jews. —Harmony; 
muficalnefs.—That\vhich will diltinguifh his ftyle is, the 
numeroujhejs of his verfe. There is nothing fo delicately 
turned in all the Roman language. Dryden. 
NUMID'IA, an artcient kingdom of Africa, bounded 
on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, on the Couth by 
Gastulia, or part of Lybia Interior; on the weft by the 
Mulucha, a river which feparated it from Mauritania; 
and on the eaft by theTufca, another river which bound- 
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