accountest

Verb

account (third-person singular simple present accounts, present participle accounting, simple past and past participle accounted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.
3. (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
   • I'd account it a privilege to serve you.

   Synonyms:

   appraise, count, esteem, see, censure, consider, deem, hold, dub, find

4. (intransitive) To consider that.
   • Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 11:19
5. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
   • An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
6. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
   • We must account for the use of our opportunities.

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