promptuary means of or relating to preparation.
Etymology
Latin promptuarium (“storehouse”).
adj
- Of or relating to preparation.“such things as frequently happen and come in dispute ; and this we call the promptuary way”
noun
- A magazine, repository, or handbook.
- 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.