Category:Reckon

Reck"on, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reckoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Reckoning.] Etym: [oe. rekenen, as. gerecenian to explain; akin to d. rekenen to Reckon, g. rechnen, ohg. rahnjan), and to e. reck, rake an implement; The original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. See reck, v. t.]

1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that Remain. Lev. xxvii. 18. I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. Addison.

2. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or Quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute. He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke xxii. 37. For him i reckon not in high estate. Milton.

3. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain Quality or value. Faith was reckoned to abraham for righteousness. Rom. iv. 9. Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. Hawthorne.

4. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, To think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause; as, i Reckon he won't try that again. [prov. Eng. & colloq. U. S.]

Syn. -- to number; enumerate; compute; calculate; estimate; value; Esteem; account; repute. See calculate, guess.

Reckon Reck"on, v. i.

1. To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or Computing. Shak.

2. To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to Examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust Relations of desert or penalty. "parfay," sayst thou, "sometime he reckon shall." Chaucer. To reckon For, to answer for; to pay the account for. "if they fail in their Bounden duty, they shall reckon for it one day." Bp. Sanderson. -- to reckon on or upon, to count or depend on. -- to reckon with, to settle accounts or claims with; -- used Literally or figuratively. After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth With them. Matt. xxv. 19. -- to reckon without one's host, to ignore in a calculation or Arrangement the person whose assent is essential; hence, to reckon Erroneously.