Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for E-NU-MER-A'TION
E-NU'MER-A-TINGE-NU'MER-A-TIVE
E-NU-MER-A'TION, n. [L. enumeratio.]
- The act of counting or telling a number, by naming each particular.
- An account of a number of things, in which mention is made of every particular article.
- 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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