▪ I. † denary, denarie, n.1 Obs.
[ad. L. dēnārius.]
= denarius, the Roman penny.
| c 1449 Pecock Repr. ii. ii. 140 Thei offriden to him a denarie. 1548 Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. xviii. 93 An hundreth denaries. 1550 Latimer Serm. Stamford Wks. I. 279 ‘Shew me..a penny of the tribute money’..and they brought him a denari. 1615 Brightman Revelation 213 Let thre such measures of barly bee sold for a denary. 1674 S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 105 This is sometime called Drachmal Denary for distinction sake. |
▪ II. denary, a. and n.2
(ˈdiːnərɪ)
[ad. L. dēnāri-us containing ten.]
A. adj. Relating to the number ten; having ten as the basis of reckoning; decimal.
| 1848 C. Wordsworth Hulsean Lect. Apocalypse 524 Being toes they must be ten..in other successive prophecies this denary number is retained. 1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 463 To convert 8735 of the denary into the duodenary scale. 1891 Pall Mall G. 4 Aug. 6/1 The ten denary symbols. |
† B. n. Obs.
1. The number ten; a group of ten, a decad.
| 1615 Crooke Body of Man 337 Three Denaries or Decades of weekes. a 1648 Sir K. Digby in Suppl. to Cabala 248 (T.) Centenaries, that are composed of denaries, and they of units. 1682 H. More Annot. Glanvill's Lux O. 180 Suppose..Denary, is such a setled number and no other. |
2. A tithing or tenth part.
| 1577 Harrison England ii. iv. (1877) i. 91 He diuided..lathes into hundreds, and hundreds into tithings, or denaries. |