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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Amount

A-mount', v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. AMOUNTED; p. pr. & vb. n. AMOUNTING.] [O. Fr. amonter, amounter, to increase, advance, ascend; L. Lat. admontare, from ad and L. Lat. montare, Fr. monter, Pr., Sp., & Pg. montar, It. montare, to ascend, from Lat. mons, mountain, Norm. Fr. amont (equiv. to Lat. ad montem), upward; Fr. amont, up the river.]

Sense 1. To go up; to ascend; hence, to depart.

So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser.

Sense 2. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come in the aggregate or whole.

Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, Can not amount unto a hundred marks. Shak.

Sense 3. To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; as, the testimony of these witnesses amounts to very little.

A-mount', v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. To increase; to augment. [Rare.] “Whose number was now amounted to 300.” Swift.

A-mount′, n.

noun

n. 1. The sum total of two or more particular sums or quantities; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16.

Sense 2. The effect, substance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.