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/əkˈaʊntɪŋ/ /əkˈaʊnɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Account v. t. (past & past part. accounted; pres. part. accounting)

1.

To reckon; to compute; to count. (Obs.) "The motion of... the sun whereby years are accounted."

2.

To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; with to. (R.)

3.

To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem. "Accounting that God was able to raise him up."

4.

To recount; to relate. (Obs.)

Account v. i.

1.

To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

2.

To render an account; to answer in judgment; with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.

3.

To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.

To account of, to esteem; to prize; to value. Now used only in the passive. "I account of her beauty." "Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century."

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"Accounting" Quotes from Famous Books

... of excitement during this week. Everybody was ready with suggestions and conjectures, everybody wanted to account for the assault. At first there seemed no accounting for it at all, but at length some one recollected that Lowrie had been last seen with Spring and Braddy. They had "getten up a row betwixt theirsens, and t'others had ...

— That Lass O' Lowrie's - 1877 • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... commonest in Chemistry: chemical tests, says Herschel, "are almost universally crucial experiments." The following is abridged from Playfair (Encycl. Met., Diss. III.): The Chemists of the eighteenth century observed that metals were rendered heavier by calcination; and there were two ways of accounting for this: either something had been added in the process, though what, they could not imagine; or, something had been driven off that was in its nature light, namely, phlogiston. To decide between these hypotheses, Lavoisier hermetically sealed some tin in a glass retort, ...

— Logic - Deductive and Inductive • Carveth Read

... could not admire the Nelson Column, nor that which lends monumental distinction to the Duke of York. After Trajan's and that of the Place Vendome, each of which is a permanent and precious historical record, accounting sufficiently for its existence, there is something very unsatisfactory in these nude cylinders. That to the Duke of York might well have the confession of the needy knife grinder as an inscription on its base. I confess in all honesty that I vastly prefer the monument commemorating the fire to ...

— Our Hundred Days in Europe • Oliver Wendell Holmes

... will be made to your kinsman," said Oliver, smiling again, "and, my dearest son, when you return safe from the execution of this pleasing trust, I doubt not you will be found worthy of such promotion as will dispense with your accounting for your motions to any one, while it will place you at the head of those who must render an account of theirs ...

— Quentin Durward • Sir Walter Scott

... at the pitch of accounting for all the mental and physical peculiarities of Madame de M. by the presence of this slight blemish, and despite myself this black tooth personified the Countess so well that even now, although it has been replaced by another magnificent ...

— Monsieur, Madame and Bebe, Complete • Gustave Droz

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