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accompt

/əˈkɒmpt/

accompt noun: account.

Noun

accompt (plural accompts)

  1. (archaic) Account.
    • You muſt make an accompt of balance on the next void leaf or folio of your ledger to your other accompts; but after ſo done, do not venture to draw out the accompt of balance in the ſaid folio, till you have made it exact on a ſheet of paper, ruled and titled for that purpoſe, becauſe of miſtakes...1778, “Method of Balancing Accounts at the Year’s End”, in Kearsley’s Gentleman and Tradesman’s Pocket Ledger, for the Year 1778: …, London: Printed for G. Kearsley, […], →OCLC, page 184
    • This accompt has been made to appear a bull accompt, i.e. that the bulls cannot take their stock. The fact is the reverse; it is a bear accompt, but the bears, unable to deliver their stock, have conjointly banged the market, and pocketed the tickets, to defeat the rise and loss that would have...1821, Bank of England, The Bank - The Stock Exchange - The Bankers ..., page 64

Verb

accompt (third-person singular simple present accompts, present participle accompting, simple past and past participle accompted)

  1. (archaic) To account.
    • Watch ye therefore, and pray alwayes, that ye may be accompted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe, and to stand before the sonne of man.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 21:36

Forms of accompt

Noun
pluralaccompts
Verb
third-person singular presentaccompts
present participleaccompting
past participleaccompted
pastaccompted

Origin of accompt

Inherited from Middle English accompt.

Words that rhyme with accompt

Questions about accompt

What does accompt mean?
Accompt means account.
What part of speech is accompt?
Accompt can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce accompt?
Accompt is pronounced /əˈkɒmpt/.
What is the plural of accompt?
The plural of accompt is accompts.

Words near accompt in the dictionary

  1. accomplishments
  2. accomplisht
  3. accomplition
  4. accomplitions
  5. Accompong
  6. accompt
  7. accomptable
  8. accomptant
  9. accomptants
  10. accomptaunt
  11. accomptaunts

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