accompt

English

Etymology

From Middle English accompt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈkɒmpt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒmpt

Noun

accompt (plural accompts)

1. (archaic) Account.
   • 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:

     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 or errors that may occur or happen in the courſe of ballancing your ledger; […]

   • 1821, Bank of England, The Bank - The Stock Exchange - The Bankers ..., page 64:

     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 ensued to them by their buying on a rising price on the accompt day […]

Verb

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

1. (archaic) To account.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 21:36:

     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.

Anagrams

• compact, σ-compact

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

accompt

1. Alternative form of acounte

Etymology 2

Verb

accompt

1. Alternative form of acounten