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verb Reckon v. t. (past & past part. reckoned; pres. part. reckoning) 1.To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. "The priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain." "I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church." 2.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." "For him I reckon not in high estate." 3.To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value. "Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness." "Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime." 4.To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; followed by an objective clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again. (Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.) Synonyms: To number; enumerate; compute; calculate; estimate; value; esteem; account; repute. See Calculate, Guess.
Reckon v. i. 1.To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing. 2.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 reckon shall."" To reckon for, to answer for; to pay the account for. "If they fail in their bounden duty, they shall reckon for it one day." To reckon on To reckon upon, to count or depend on; to include as a factor within one's considerations. To reckon with, (a)to settle accounts or claims with; used literally or figuratively. (b)to include as a factor in one's plans or calculations; to anticipate. (c)to deal with; to handle; as, I have to reckon with raising three children as well as doing my job. "After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them." To reckon without one's host, to ignore in a calculation or arrangement the person whose assent is essential; hence, to reckon erroneously.
noun Reckoning n. 1.The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically: (b)Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc. "Even reckoning makes lasting friends, and the way to make reckonings even is to make them often." "He quitted London, never to return till the day of a terrible and memorable reckoning had arrived." 2.The charge or account made by a host at an inn. "A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning." 3.Esteem; account; estimation. "You make no further reckoning of it (beauty) than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed." 4.(Navigation) (a)The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation. (b)The position of a ship as determined by calculation. To be out of her reckoning, to be at a distance from the place indicated by the reckoning; said of a ship. day of reckoning the day or time when one must pay one's debts, fulfill one's obligations, or be punished for one's transgressions.
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