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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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adj
Of or relating to preparation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
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noun
A magazine, repository, or handbook.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A device described in Napier's treatise Rabdologiæ, consisting of a large set of strips used to multiply multi-digit numbers more easily than Napier’s bones.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: arithmetic
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History
Latin promptuarium (“storehouse”).
