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Reckon

Rĕck'on, v. t.

verbtransitive

(rĕk'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. RECKONED; p. pr. & vb. n. RECKONING.] [O. Eng. recken, rekenen, A-S. recnan, recnian, Goth. rahnjan, O. Fries. rekenia, rekenia, Icel. reikna, Sw. räkna, Dan. regne, D. rekenen, L. Ger. reken, reken, N. H. Ger. rechnen, rechnen, O. H. Ger. rechanôn.] 1. To make or render account of; to tell one by one; to compute; to calculate; to count. The priest shall reckon to him the money, according to the years that remain, . . . and it shall be abated. Lev. xxvii. 18. I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. Addison. 2. To count as in number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to account; to esteem; to repute. He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke xxii. 37. For him I reckon not in high estate. Milton. Syn.—To number; enumerate; compute; calculate; estimate; value; esteem; account; repute.

Rēck'on, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To make account; to go through with a calculation or computation.

I call posterity Into the debt, and reckon on her head. B. Jonson.

Sense 2. To make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

Sense 3. To think; to suppose; to imagine. [Prov. and vulgar.]

☞ In this last sense, the word is provincial in England, and is also used to an excess in the middle and southern parts of the United States, corresponding to that of guess in the northern. See Guess.

To reckon for, to be answerable for; to pay the penalty for. “If they fail in their bounden duty, they shall reckon for it one day.” Sanderson. — To reckon on or upon, to count or establish on; to lay plans or take steps in confident expectation of; to depend on. — To reckon with, to settle accounts or claims with; to call to account; to exact penalty of.

After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. Matt. xxv. 19.