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plural promptuaries
(obsolete) A magazine, repository, or handbook.
(arithmetic) 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. examples
not comparable
(obsolete) Of or relating to preparation. quotations
such things as frequently happen and come in dispute ; and this we call the promptuary way
1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […]