Definition of "arithmetical" []

• Of or pertaining to arithmetic, particularly the functions of arithmetic (adjective)

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• ""The worst sort of pretentious posturing," said the professor of counting and arithmetic at the University of London, adding "that for all this Newton's so-called arithmetical expertise, there is just nothing in this book that indicates that it has any relevance at all to the real data of astronomy.""
• "St Paul's greatness is not, however, constituted by this rationalism -- for such we must term the arithmetical manipulation of the death of Jesus -- but by an entirely new appreciation of the Crucifixion."
• "As C himself takes the slate, her dark eyes, lifted an instant to his, are large with painful meaning, for she sees at a glance she must travel -- if the arithmetical is the true answer -- more than the whole distance now between them."