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Webster 1913 Edition

Count

Count

(kount)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Counted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Counting
.]
[OF.
conter
, and later (etymological spelling)
compter
, in modern French thus distinguished;
conter
to relate (cf.
Recount
,
Account
),
compter
to count; fr. L.
computuare
to reckon, compute;
com-
+
putare
to reckon, settle, order, prune, orig., to clean. See
Pure
, and cf.
Compute
.]
1.
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.
Who can
count
the dust of Jacob?
Num. xxiii. 10.
In a journey of forty miles, Avaux
counted
only three miserable cabins.
Macaulay.
2.
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.
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.
Shakespeare
Syn. – To calculate; number; reckon; compute; enumerate. See
Calculate
.

Count

,
Verb.
I.
1.
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.
2.
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.
3.
To take account or note; – with
of.
[Obs.]
“No man counts of her beauty.”
Shak.
4.
(Eng. Law)
To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
Burrill.

Count

,
Noun.
[F.
conte
and
compte
, with different meanings, fr. L.
computus
a computation, fr.
computare
. See
Count
,
Verb.
T.
]
1.
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.
Shakespeare
2.
An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
[Obs.]
“All his care and count.”
Spenser.
3.
(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.
Wharton.
☞ In the old law books, count was used synonymously with declaration. When the plaintiff has but a single cause of action, and makes but one statement of it, that statement is called indifferently count or declaration, most generally, however, the latter. But where the suit embraces several causes, or the plaintiff makes several different statements of the same cause of action, each statement is called a count, and all of them combined, a declaration.
Bouvier. Wharton.

Count

,
Noun.
[F.
conte
, fr. L.
comes
,
comitis
, associate, companion, one of the imperial court or train, properly, one who goes with another;
com-
+
ire
to go, akin to Skr.
i
to go.]
A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl.
☞ Though the tittle Count has never been introduced into Britain, the wives of Earls have, from the earliest period of its history, been designated as Countesses.
Brande & C.
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.
[Eng.]
See
County palatine
, under
County
.
(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.
[Germany]

Webster 1828 Edition

Count

COUNT

, v.t.
1.
To number; to tell or name one by one, or by small numbers, for ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; as, to count the years, days and hours of a mans life; to count the stars.
Who can count the dust of Jacob? Numbers 23.
2.
To reckon; to preserve a reckoning; to compute.
Some tribes of rude nations count their years by the coming of certain birds among them at certain seasons, and leaving them at others.
3.
To reckon; to place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.
Abraham believed in God, and he counted it to him for righteousness. Genesis 15.
4.
To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.
I count them my enemies. Psalm 139.
Neither count I my life dear to myself. Acts 20.
I count all things loss. Philippians 3.
5.
To impute; to charge.

COUNT

,
Verb.
I.
To count on or upon, to reckon upon; to found an account or scheme on; to rely on. We cannot count on the friendship of nations. Count not on the sincerity of sycophants.

COUNT

,
Noun.
1.
Reckoning; the act of numbering; as, this is the number according to my count.
2.
Number.
3.
In law, a particular charge in an indictment, or narration in pleading, setting forth the cause of complaint. There may be different counts in the same declaration.

COUNT

,
Noun.
[L., a companion or associate, a fellow traveler.] A title of foreign nobility, equivalent to the English earl, and whose domain is a county. An earl; the alderman of a shire, as the Saxons called him. The titles of English nobility, according to their rank, are Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, and Baron.

Definition 2024

count

count

English

Verb

count ‎(third-person singular simple present counts, present participle counting, simple past and past participle counted)

  1. (intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.
    Can you count to a hundred?‎ The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.‎
  2. (transitive) To determine the number (of objects in a group).
    There are three apples; count them.‎
  3. (intransitive) To be of significance; to matter.
    Your views don't count here.   It doesn't count if you cheat with someone when you're drunk.‎
  4. (intransitive) To be an example of something.
    • J. A. Symonds
      This excellent man […] counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.
    • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
      Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. […] But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
    Apples count as a type of fruit.‎
  5. (transitive) To consider something an example of something.
    He counts himself a hero after saving the cat from the river.   I count you as more than a friend.‎
  6. (obsolete) To take account or note (of).
    • Shakespeare
      No man counts of her beauty.
  7. (Britain, law) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)
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Noun

count ‎(plural counts)

  1. The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
    Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.
  2. The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
  3. A countdown.
  4. (law) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
  5. (baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
    He has a 3-2 count with the bases loaded.
  6. (obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
    • Spenser
      all his care and count
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Etymology 2

Borrowing from Anglo-Norman conte and Old French comte ‎(“count”), from Latin comes ‎(“companion”) (more specifically derived from its accusative form comitem) in the sense of "noble fighting alongside the king".

Noun

count ‎(plural counts, feminine countess)

  1. The male ruler of a county.
  2. A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
Synonyms
  • (English counts): earl
  • (French counts): comte
  • (Italian counts): conte
  • (German counts): graf
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Etymology

From Middle English counten, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter ‎(“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computare, present active infinitive of computō ‎(“I compute”). Displaced native Middle English tellen ‎(“to count”) (from Old English tellan) and Middle English rimen ‎(“to count, enumerate”) (from Old English rīman).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaʊnt/
  • Rhymes: -aʊnt

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