Ac‐count″ (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Accounted; p. pr. & vb. n.Accounting.] [OE. acounten, accompten, OF. aconter, à (L. ad) + conter to count. F. conter to tell, compter to count, L. computare. See Count, v. t.]
1. To reckon; to compute; to count.
The motion of... the sun whereby years are accounted.
Sir T. Browne.
2. To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; — with to. Clarendon.
3. To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
Accounting that God was able to raise him up.
Heb. xi. 19.
4. To recount; to relate. Chaucer.