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Word Meanings - RECKON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the

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reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 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. Lev. xxvii. 18. I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. Addison. 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. Luke xxii. 37. For him I reckon not in high estate. Milton. 3. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value. Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Rom. iv. 9. Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. Hawthorne. 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. Syn. -- To number; enumerate; compute; calculate; estimate; value; esteem; account; repute. See Calculate, Guess.

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  • COUNTERBRACE
    To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • APPRAISER
    One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
  • COUNTERACTIVE
    Tending to counteract.
  • MISJUDGE
    To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
  • COUNTERFLEURY
    Counterflory.
  • COUNTERVIEW
    1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
  • COUNTABLE
    Capable of being numbered.
  • COUNTER WEIGHT
    A counterpoise.
  • COUNTRY-DANCE
    See MACUALAY
  • COUNTERJUMPER
    A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously.
  • ACCOUNTANTSHIP
    The office or employment of an accountant.
  • RECKON
    reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
  • NUMBERFUL
    Numerous.
  • CONSIDERINGLY
    With consideration or deliberation.
  • PROPORTIONATE
    Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
  • RECKONER
    One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
  • COUNTERPLEAD
    To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
  • COUNTER BRACE
    The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
  • DISPROPORTIONALLY
    In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
  • IMPROPORTIONATE
    Not proportionate.
  • DISPROPORTIONABLE
    Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
  • DISPROPORTIONALITY
    The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
  • ENCOUNTERER
    One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
  • DISRESPECTABILITY
    Want of respectability. Thackeray.

 

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