Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Numerary \Nu"mer*a*ry\, a. [LL. numerarius: cf. F.
   num['e]raire.]
   Belonging to a certain number; counting as one of a
   collection or body.

         A supernumerary canon, when he obtains a prebend,
         becomes a numerary canon.                --Ayliffe.