Definition for E-NU-MER-A'TION

E-NU-MER-A'TION, n. [L. enumeratio.]

  1. The act of counting or telling a number, by naming each particular.
  2. An account of a number of things, in which mention is made of every particular article.
  3. In rhetoric, a part of a peroration, in which the orator recapitulates the principal points or heads of the discourse or argument.

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