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Vicenary. World English Historical Dictionary

Vicenary. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Vicenary sb. and a. [ad. L. vīcēnāri-us, f. vīcēnī, distrib. f. vīgintī twenty.]

1   † a.  sb. One who has command over twenty persons. Obs.

2 1603.  Harsnet, Pop. Impost., 49. Delicat, another Captaine, or vicenarie in Sara, hauing vnder him twenty assistants.

3   b.  adj. ‘Belonging to twenty’ (Bailey, 1727); based on the number twenty. Cf. VIGENARY a.

4 1826.  Peacock, in Encycl. Metrop. (1845), I. 371/1. Such a practice would naturally lead to the formation of a vicenary scale of numeration.

5 1834.  Penny Cycl., II. 337/2. In France the scale from 60 to 100 is strictly vicenary (by twenties).

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