1 definition found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Account \Ac*count"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Accounted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accounting}.] [OE. acounten, accompten, OF. aconter, ['a] (L. ad) + conter to count. F. conter to tell, compter to count, L. computare. See {Count}, verb (used with an object)] 1. To reckon; to compute; to count. [Obs.] The motion of . . . the sun whereby years are accounted. --Sir T. Browne. 2. To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to. [R.] --Clarendon. 3. To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem. Accounting that God was able to raise him up. --Heb. xi. 19. 4. To recount; to relate. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

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