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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A reckoning; account; computation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Reckoning; account.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A calculation or computation; the act of calculating or computing; reckoning
  • noun obsolete A method or system of calculating or reckoning.
  • noun obsolete Estimation; estimate; considered opinion.
  • noun rare A pruning or cutting of trees.

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Examples

  • Hill of Tarara, the 10th of January, in the climacteric year of his age, and of our supputation 1543, according to the Roman account.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Hill of Tarara, the 10th of January, in the climacteric year of his age, and of our supputation 1543, according to the Roman account.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • -- "NATHAN" is informed, that, according to the legal supputation, until A.D. 1752, the year of Our

    Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850 Various

  • Oxford is supposed to contain in longitude eighteen degrees and eight and twenty minutes, and in latitude one and fifty degrees and fifty minutes: whereas that of Cambridge standing more northerly, hath twenty degrees and twenty minutes in longitude, and thereunto fifty and two degrees and fifteen minutes in latitude, as by exact supputation is easy to be found.

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • The Romans, that erected a Temple to Fortune, acknowledged therein, though in a blinder way, somewhat of Divinity; for, in a wise supputation, 39 all things begin and end in the Almighty.

    The First Part: Paras 1-35 1909

  • Oxford is supposed to contain in longitude eighteen degrees and eight and twenty minutes, and in latitude one and fifty degrees and fifty minutes: whereas that of Cambridge standing more northerly, hath twenty degrees and twenty minutes in longitude, and thereunto fifty and two degrees and fifteen minutes in latitude, as by exact supputation is easy to be found.

    Of Universities. Chapter XVIII. [1577, Book II., Chapter 6; 1587, Book II., Chapter 3 1909

  • For what remains, I undertake not to reckon up the leagues which he has travelled, (the supputation would be difficult to make,) and content myself to say in general, that, according to the rules of our geographers, who have exactly measured the terrestrial globe, if all his courses were to be computed, they would be found to be many times exceeding the circumference of this world.

    The Works of John Dryden Dryden, John, 1631-1700 1808

  • For what remains, I undertake not to reckon up the leagues which he has travelled, (the supputation would be difficult to make,) and content myself to say in general, that, according to the rules of our geographers, who have exactly measured the terrestrial globe, if all his courses were to be computed, they would be found to be many times exceeding the circumference of this world.

    The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16 John Dryden 1665

  • The Romans, that erected a temple to Fortune, acknowledged therein, though in a blinder way, somewhat of divinity; for, in a wise supputation, [I. 22] all things begin and end in the Almighty.

    Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643

  • There is no great danger in our mistaking the height of the sun, or the fraction of some astronomical supputation; but here, where our whole being is concerned, 'tis not wisdom to abandon ourselves to the mercy of the agitation of so many contrary winds.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 13 Michel de Montaigne 1562

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