enumerate
verb (used with object)
to mention separately as if in counting; name one by one; specify, as in a list.
enumerative
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a word derived from
enumerate.
Example Sentences
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He took the linear, enumerative style of early American effigy painting and made it peculiarly grand--not through rhetoric, as in the "grand manner," but through the candor of its curiosity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Descriptive passages such as this are not, indeed, common, because, as Lessing clearly pointed out, the poet depends more upon action and its effect than on mere enumerative description.
From Religion and Art in Ancient Greece by Ernest Arthur Gardner
Our task is not to concentrate an enumerative attention on each individual factor; we should never get away from them, the weight would be too heavy.
From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Vincent Benson
The copulative or enumerative conjunctions, have only two degrees.
From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various
Now the prospect from the hill at Hagley furnished me with the true explanation of this enumerative style.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
