denarian

English

Etymology

From Latin dēnārius (“of the number ten”), from dēnī (“ten each”), from decem (“ten”) +‎ -an.

Adjective

denarian (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the number 10.
   • 1967, Robert Theodore Gunther, Robert Hooke, Early science in Oxford - Volume 3, page 189:

     He excused himself to his brother, the Argonaut, who reproached him for appearing before breakfast in a well-worn coat, 'it is my ante-jentacular coat, Jack ' ; and answered his apologies for troubling him with a letter to London, by saying, ' I shall put it into the denarian post, and there my trouble will end;.

   • 1982, Mafika Pascal Gwala, No More Lullabies, page 50:

     play loose when it's only time to choose brother stop playing the goose trapped in a denarian noose

2. (more specifically) Pertaining to a form a numerology that views the number 10 as the most perfect or powerful number.
   • 1870, Year-book of Pharmacy, page 505:

     He thus explains the scope of the “Denarian Tract,” which forms the third portion of the work: “The Denary or number Ten, is the highest number according to the largest extent of Nature; or the number Five being the Spirit or Quintessence, joined with its body, the number Four, or the four Elements made pure, out of this number Nine, or by the conjunction of Four and Five, the sum of perfection is brought forth, which is the number Ten.

   • 1885, Samuel Halkett, Catherine Laing, A dictionary of the anonymous and pseudonymous literature of Great Britain:

     the third and last book, is a denarian tract, shewing how to cure all diseases with ten medicaments, and the mystery of the quaaternary and quinary number opened, with a table shewing the suns rising, setting, hours of the day, hours of the night, and how many minutes are contained in planetary hour both day and night, with a table of the signs continuance on the ascendant, fitted for magical uses, as gathering of herbs, roots, and the like, with their uses;

   • 1993, Dennis Poupard, James E. Person, Mark Scott, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, page 12:

     The alchemical relevance of these seemingly extraneous and logically defective speculations is indicated by Dee's somewhat baffling conclusion that Sun and Moon contained in the monad desire their elements, in which there is a strong denarian proportion, to be separated by means of fire.

Translations

Pertaining to the number ten