Count

Definition of Count

Pronunciation: kount

v. t.

To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon.

[imp. & p. p. Counted; p. pr. & vb. n. Counting.]

Who can count the dust of Jacob?

- Num. xxiii. 10.

In a journey of forty miles, Avaux counted only three miserable cabins.

- Macaulay.

To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.

Abracham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

- Rom. iv. 3.

To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.

I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends.

- Shak.

To count out
a -	To exclude (one) from consideration; to be assured that (one) will not participate or cannot be depended upon.
b -	(House of Commons) To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present.
c -	To prevent the accession of (a person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes cast; - said of a candidate really elected.

v. i.

To number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing.

This excellent man . . . counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.

- J. A. Symonds.

To reckon; to rely; to depend; - with on or upon.

He was brewer to the palace; and it was apprehended that the government counted on his voice.

- Macaulay.

I think it a great error to count upon the genius of a nation as a standing argument in all ages.

- Swift.

To take account or note; - with

(Eng. Law) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.

The act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number ascertained by counting.

Of blessed saints for to increase the count.

- Spenser.

By this count, I shall be much in years.

- Shak.

An object of interest or account; value; estimation.

(Law) A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution.

A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl.

Count palatine
a -	Formerly, the proprietor of a county who possessed royal prerogatives within his county, as did the Earl of Chester, the Bishop of Durham, and the Duke of Lancaster.
b -	Originally, a high judicial officer of the German emperors; afterward, the holder of a fief, to whom was granted the right to exercise certain imperial powers within his own domains.

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