Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NU-MER'IC, or NU-MER'IC-AL, a. [It. numerico; Fr. numerique; from L. numerus, number.]

1. Belonging to number; denoting number; consisting in numbers; as, numerical algebra; numerical characters.
2. Numerical difference, is that by which one individual is distinguished from another. The same numerical body is identically the same.