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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Count \Count\ (kount), v. 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. --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. [Colloq.] Syn: To calculate; number; reckon; compute; enumerate. See {Calculate}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Count \Count\, v. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Count \Count\, n. [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. Note: 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] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Count \Count\, n. [F. conte and compte, with different meanings, fr L. computus a computation, fr computare See {Count}, v. 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. --Shak. 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. Note: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: count n 1: the total number counted: "a blood count" 2: the act of counting [syn: {counting}, {numeration}, {enumeration}, {reckoning}, {tally}] 3: a nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl v 1: determine the number or amount of "Can you count the books on your shelf?"; "Count your change" [syn: {number}, {enumerate}] 2: have weight; have import, carry weight; "It does not matter much" [syn: {matter}, {weigh}] 3: show consideration for take into account; "You must consider her age"; "The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient" [syn: {consider}, {weigh}] 4: name or recite the numbers; "The toddler could count to 100" 5: put into a group "The academy counts several Nobel Prize winners among its members" [syn: {number}] 6: include as if by counting; "I can count my colleagues in the opposition" 7: take account of "You have to reckon with our opponents"; "Count on the monsoon" [syn: {reckon}]
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