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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Amount \A*mount"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Amounted}; p. pr & vb n. {Amounting}.] [OF. amonter to increase, advance, ascend, fr amont (equiv. to L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F. amont up the river. See {Mount}, n.] 1. To go up to ascend. [Obs.] So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. --Spenser. 2. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come to in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto. 3. To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as the testimony amounts to very little.
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