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verb
- To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
- The priest shall to him the money according to the years that remain. Lev. xxvii. 18.
- I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. Addison.
- To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
- He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke xxii. 37.
- For him I not in high estate. Milton.
- To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
- Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Rom. iv. 9.
- Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. Hawthorne.
- (colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause;
- I he won't try that again.
- (intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
- To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
- Parfay," sayst thou, sometime he shall." Chaucer.
Etymology: rekenen, gerecenian to explain; akin to rekenen to reckon, rechnen, (OHG.) rahnjan), and to reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. See reck.
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