Nu"mer*a*ry (?), a. [LL. numerarius: cf. F. num'eraire.]
Belonging to a certain number; counting as one of a collection or body.
A supernumerary canon, when he obtains a prebend, becomes a numerary canon. Ayliffe.
© Webster 1913.
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