denominator (denominator)

[= F. dé no min at eur = Sp. Pg. denominador = It. denomi natore, Eber,... the Father of the Hebrews, and denominator of the Hebrew tongue. Light foot , Harmony of Old Testament, p. 27. tive designation. Is there any token, denomination, or monument of the Gaules yet remaynyng in Ireland, as there is of the Scyth ians? Spenser, State of Ireland. From hence that tax had the denomination of ship money. Clarendon, Civil War, I. 68. All these came under the denomination of Anabaptists. Strype, Abp. Parker. 3. A cla , society, or collection of individuals called by the same name; specifically, a religious sect: as, the Methodist denomination. Internal denominationt, external denominationt, respectively, an attribute denoting something which is in the subject, and something which is not in it, but belongs to it in consequence of a relation to another thing; that which is intrinsic, and that which is extrinsic. A subject receives adjuncts internal into itself: as snow, whitene ; the soul, science or knowledge: external to itself; as the sight, color; soldiers, arms, etc. Internal give to the subject internal denomination ; external, ex ternal : for when snow is denominated from whitene , it is an internal denomination ; but when a soldier is said to be armed, or the eye to see anything, it is an external denomination. Vulgarly these denominations are called intrinsical and extrinsical. Burgersdicius , tr. by a Gentleman. =Syn. 2. Appellation, etc. See name, n. denominational (dē-nom-i-na's hon-al), a. [ term of a fraction which indicates the value of the fractional unit; that term of a fraction which represents the divisor, and is, in common fractions, written below the dividend or numerator. See fraction. Thus, in 3, 5 is the denomi nat or, showing that the integer is divided into five parts, 3 of which parts are taken. (b) In alg., a divisor placed under a dividend, as in a numerical fracdenotable (de-nota-bl), a. [ 3. Same as denominant . In hot regions, and more spread and digested flowers, a sweet savour may be allowed, denotable from several human expre ions. Sir T. Browne , Miscellanies, p. 25. denotatet (dē-nō'tāt), v. t. [ denotare , denote: see denote.] To denote; signify. Those terms of all and for ever in Scripture, are not eternall, but only denotate a longer time, which by many examples they prove. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 716. Wherefore serve names, but to denotate the nature of things? Bp. Hall , Against Romanists, § 38.