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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1533-1599, 1660-1681
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Numeratio(u)n, -acioun, n. Also: noumeracioun, nowmeration, nomeratioun. [Late ME. numeracion (15th c.), e.m.E. -ation (1542), L. numerātio, F. numération.] 1. Counting, reckoning, tallying.1533 Bell. Livy I. 278/32.
The nowmeration [v.r. noumeracioun] of pepill … was endit in this ȝere 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v. Mese.
The common vse of numeration & telling of herring … is vsed be thousands
2. Counting out (a payment) in ready money; payment in cash.1563 Protocol Book of J. Drummond 57.
Eftir the numeracioun and telling thairof he deliu[er]it the samyn some 1572 Protocol Book of A. Lawson 20.
The said numeratioun of the sowme foirsaid, reding of the said lettre of tak … wes done at the … said altar 1599 Glasgow Protocols Abstracts XI. 52.
Nomeratioun 1660 Rothesay B. Rec. 290.
Mak reall consignatioun and numeratioun of the last termes payment 1680 Fountainhall Decis. I. 73.
Unless … the father would … prove the numeration of the money 1681 Stair Inst. i. x. § 11.
Even though the writ bear the numeration of the money and do expressly renounce the exception of not numerated money
