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compt

compt adjective: neat; spruce. Also the abbreviation of comptroller.

Adjective

compt (comparative more compt, superlative most compt)

  1. (obsolete) Neat; spruce.
    • who is not much more carefull of the grace of his head, than of his health? who maketh not more account to be compt, than to be honest?1600, George Abbot, An exposition upon the prophet Jonah, page 592
    • A compt, accomplished prince.1623, John Vicars, Æneid

Noun

compt

  1. (obsolete) Account; reckoning; computation.
    • Your servants ever have theirs,/Themselves and what is theirs, in compt, /To make their audit at your highness' pleasure, /Still to return your own.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • it would be difficult for a youth of his age to follow the expositions of a practical lawyer, concerning actions of compt and reckoning, and of multiple-poindings, and adjudication and wadsets, proper and improper, and poindings of the ground and declarations of expiry of the legal.1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald...

Verb

compt (third-person singular simple present compts, present participle compting, simple past and past participle compted)

  1. (obsolete) To compute; to count or consider.
    • For some were warded in the Pittie-vault, some set caution to remove from the town, after they had compted and reckoned for their tavernry with their mistresses; […]1792, John Spalding, The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland, page 340
    • So shall my ryghteousnes aunswere for me in time to come: for it shal come for my rewarde before thy face. And euery one that is not specked and partie amongst the goates, & blacke amongst the sheepe, let it be compted theft in me.1568, Bishops' Bible, Genesis 30:33

Also used as

compt is also the abbreviation of comptroller.

compt is also the abbreviation of compliment.

Forms of compt

Adjective
comparativemore compt
superlativemost compt
Verb
third-person singular presentcompts
present participlecompting
past participlecompted
pastcompted
Noun
pluralcompts

Origin of compt

From Latin comptus, past participle of comere (“to care for, comb, arrange, adorn”).

Variant of count.

Abbreviations.

Words formed from compt

Questions about compt

What does compt mean?
Compt means neat; spruce.
What part of speech is compt?
Compt can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.

Words near compt in the dictionary

  1. compsognathoid
  2. compspec
  3. compspecs
  4. Compstall
  5. compstatin
  6. compt
  7. compt.
  8. Comptche
  9. compte rendu
  10. compted
  11. compter

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