AcÏcount¶ (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accounted; p. pr. & vb. n. Accounting.] [OE. acounten, accompten, OF. aconter; … (L. ad) + conter to tell, compter to count, L. computare. See Count, v. t.]
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; Ð 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.
AcÏcount¶, 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; Ð 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; Ð with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.
To account of, to esteem; to prize; to value. Now used only in the passive. ½I account of her beauty.¸
Shak.
Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century.
Canon Robinson.
AcÏcount¶aÏbil·aÏbil¶iÏty (#), n. The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness. ½The awful idea of accountability.¸
R. Hall.
AcÏcount¶aÏble (#), a. 1. Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.
2. Capable of being accounted for; explicable. [R.]
True religion … intelligible, rational, and accountable, Ð not a burden but a privilege.
B. Whichcote.
Syn. Ð Amenable; responsible; liable; answerable.
AcÏcount¶aÏble ness, n. The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.
AcÏcount¶aÏbly, adv. In an accountable manner.
AcÏcount¶anÏcy (#), n. The art or employment of an accountant.
AcÏcount¶ant (#), n. [Cf. F. accomptant, OF. acontant, p. pr.] 1. One who renders account; one accountable.
2. A reckoner.
3. One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
Accountatn general, the head or superintending accountant in certain public offices. Also, formerly, an officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England.
AcÏcount¶ant, a. Accountable. [Obs.]
Shak.
AcÏcount¶antÏship (#), n. [Accountant + Ïship.] The office or employment of an accountant.
AcÏcount¶ book· (#). A book in which accounts are kept.
Swift.
AcÏco¶ple (#), v. t. [OF. acopler, F. accoupler. See Couple.] To join; to couple. [R.]
The Englishmen accoupled themselves with the Frenchmen.
Hall.
AcÏcou¶pleÏment (#), n. [Cf. F. accouplement.] 1. The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union. [R.]
Caxton.
2. That which couples, as a tie or brace. [R.]
AcÏcour¶age (#), v. t. [OF. acoragier; … (L. ad) + corage. See Courage.] To encourage. [Obs.]
AcÏcourt¶ (#), v. t. [AcÏ, for L. ad. See Court.] To treat courteously; to court. [Obs.]
Spenser.
AcÏcou¶ter, AcÏcou¶tre } (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accoutered or Accoutred (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Accoutering or Accoutring.] [F. accouter, OF. accoutrer, accoustrer; … (L. ad) + perh. LL. custor, for custos guardian, sacristan (cf. Custody), or perh. akin to E. guilt.] To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array.
Bot accoutered like young men.
Shak.
For this, in rags accoutered are they seen.
Dryden.
Accoutered with his burden and his staff.
Wordsworth.
AcÏcou¶terÏments, AcÏcou¶treÏments } (#), n. pl. [F. accoutrement, earlier also accoustrement, earlier also accoustrement. See Accouter.] Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers.
How gay with all the accouterments of war!
A. Philips.
AcÏcoy¶ (#), v. t. [OF. acoyer; acÏ, for L. ad. See Coy.] 1. To render quiet; to soothe. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
2. To subdue; to tame; to daunt. [Obs.]
Then is your careless courage accoyed.
Spenser.
AcÏcred¶it (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accredited; p. pr. & vb. n. Accrediting.] [F. accr‚diter; … (L. ad) + cr‚dit credit. See Credit.] 1. To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
His censure will … accredit his praises.
Cowper.
These reasons … which accredit and fortify mine opinion.
Shelton.
2. To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
Beton … was accredited to the Court of France.
Froude.
3. To believe; to credit; to put trust in.
The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century.
Sir G. C. Lewis.
He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft.
Southey.
4. To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one.
To accredit (one) with (something), to attribute something to him; as, Mr. Clay was accredited with these views; they accredit him with a wise saying.
AcÏcred·iÏta¶tion (#), n. The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation.
Ac·creÏmenÏti¶tial (#), a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to accremention.
Ac·creÏmenÏti¶tion (#), n. [See Accresce, Increment.] (Physiol.) The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.
AcÏcresce¶ (#), v. i. [L. accrescere. See Accrue.] 1. To accrue. [R.]