Definition of Promptuary. Meaning of Promptuary. Synonyms of Promptuary

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Definition of Promptuary

Promptuary
Promptuary Promp"tu*a*ry, a. Of or pertaining to preparation. [R.] --Bacon.
Promptuary
Promptuary Promp"tu*a*ry, n. [L. promptuarium, fr. promptuarius belonging to distribution, distributing: cf, F. promptuaire. See Prompt, a.] That from which supplies are drawn; a storehouse; a magazine; a repository. --Woodward.

Meaning of Promptuary from wikipedia

- The promptuary, also known as the card abacus is a calculating machine invented by the 16th-century Scottish mathematician John Napier and described in...
- find the square roots and cube roots of numbers. The second device was a promptuary (Latin promptuarium meaning storehouse) and consisted of a large set of...
- Computing devices in Rabdology Napier's bones Promptuary Location arithmetic v t e...
- Computing devices in Rabdology Napier's bones Promptuary Location arithmetic v t e...
- can be found on the web, as well as a discussion of Napier's bones and Promptuary (another early calculating device). His invention of logarithms was quickly...
- history of mathematics. Pantochronachanon (1652) Subtitled "A peculiar promptuary of time," this work is a genealogy of the Urquhart family. In it, Urquhart...
- travel in the Rishu (Harper 1999:872). The section titled "Yu xuyu" 禹須臾 "Promptuary/Instant of Yu" begins by listing the stem and branch ****agenary cycle...
- ****ociated with travel in the Rishu. The section titled "Yu xuyu" 禹須臾 "Promptuary/Instant of Yu" begins by listing the stem and branch ****agenary cycle...