Account
Account ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Old English acount, account, accompt, Old French acont, from aconter. See Account, transitive verb, Count, n., 1.]
1.
A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
A beggarly account of empty boxes.
2.
A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.
3.
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.
4.
A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.
A laudable account of the city of London.
5.
A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
Give an account of thy stewardship.
6.
An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
To stand high in your account.
7.
Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
Men of account.
To turn to account.
This other part... makes account to find no slender arguments for this assertion out of those very scriptures which are commonly urged against it.
Account ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[Old English acounten, accompten, Old French aconter, à (Latin ad) + conter to count. French conter to tell, compter to count, Latin computare. See Count, transitive verb]
1.
To reckon; to compute; to count. [Obsolete]
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. [Rare] — Clarendon
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. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
Account , intransitive verb
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.
Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century.
Collocations (1)
To account of , to esteem; to prize; to value. Now used only in the passive. I account of her beauty.