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reckoning up

reckoning up is the present participle and gerund of reckon up.

Meaning of reckon up

Verb

reckon up (third-person singular simple present reckons up, present participle reckoning up, simple past and past participle reckoned up)

  1. To add up; count up; compute the amount of; tally; come to an accounting of.
    • Of the Anabaptiſts, the ſame Author [Alexander Ross] Sect. 12. reckons up a great many different Sects, as the Mancerians, the Separatiſts, the Cathariſts, the Apoſtolicks, the Enthuſiaſts, the Silentes, the Adamites, the Liberi, the Hutites, the Melchioriſts, the Menoniſts, the Beucheldians, the...1735, [Richard Challoner], “Of [Martin] Luther’s Quarrel with Carlostadius [i.e., Andreas Karlstadt], and of the Divisions That Insued Thereupon amongst Protestants: […]”, in A Short History of the...
  2. (informal, transitive) To harshly criticize.
    • We reckoned him up pretty bad.
  3. (informal, transitive) To perceive (reckon) (someone or something).
    • I reckoned him up as a troublemaker at first glance.

Questions about reckoning up

What is reckoning up the present participle and gerund of?
Reckoning up is the present participle and gerund of reckon up.

Words near reckoning up in the dictionary

  1. reckonin'
  2. reckoning
  3. reckoning for
  4. reckoning on
  5. reckoning out
  6. reckoning up
  7. reckoning upon
  8. reckoning with
  9. reckoning without
  10. reckoning without one's host
  11. reckonings

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