Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tenfold.
- adjective Divided or counted by tens; decimal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing ten; tenfold.
- noun A division by tens; a tithing: as, “tythings or denaries,”
- noun A denarius.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing ten; tenfold; proceeding by tens.
- noun The number ten; a division into ten.
- noun A coin; the Anglicized form of
denarius .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An ancient
coin , thedenarius . - adjective containing ten parts
- adjective based on the number
ten
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten
- adjective containing ten or ten parts
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As the Dutch had pounds, shillings and pence, before the English had them, we see what _d_ in the signs £ s.d. means, that is, a denary, or a white penny, made of silver.
Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885
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The denary (about fifteen cents) was a third more than the daily pay of a Roman soldier.
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It is working in the denary (or ten) scale of notation, a system undoubtedly derived from the fact that our forefathers who devised it had ten fingers upon which they were accustomed to count, like our children of to-day.
Amusements in Mathematics Henry Ernest Dudeney 1893
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To reverse the operation, and convert 2,341 from the denary to the septenary scale, we divide it by 7, and get 334 and remainder 3; divide
Amusements in Mathematics Henry Ernest Dudeney 1893
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But if a man said that he had 6,553 dollars in the septenary (or seven) scale of notation, you will find that this is precisely the same amount as 2,341 in our ordinary denary scale.
Amusements in Mathematics Henry Ernest Dudeney 1893
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It is unnecessary for us ordinarily to state that we are using the denary scale, because this is always understood in the common affairs of life.
Amusements in Mathematics Henry Ernest Dudeney 1893
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Each one was worth a denary, which was a coin worth about a shilling, or a quarter of a dollar.
Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885
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Aug.: Yet not without reason did the Lord say, "Seventy times seven;" for the Law is set forth in ten precepts; and the Law is signified by the number ten, sin by eleven, because it is passing the denary line.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842
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There is a little shop about b7 metres down the road from me (or 150 metres, if you want it in denary).
Army Rumour Service 2010
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a chump of the evums, upshoot of picnic or stupor out of sopor, Cave of Kids or Hyma-nian Glattstoneburg, denary, danery, donnery,
Finnegans Wake 2006
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