compt
verb (used with or without object)
an archaic spelling of count.
compt
1 American
[kount]
/ kaʊnt /
verb (used with or without object)
Archaic.
compt.
2
American
abbreviation
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Men koopt gemeen 25 Gantam voor 5 ofte 6 realen, dat is zooveel als een hanega; het compt al van ’t zelfde eylandt van Clocas, Cangayan en andere plaetsen”.
O thou whose favours have been out of compt, * Whose gifts are more than may be numbered!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Take the bonds along with you, And have the dates in compt.
From Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
O thou whose favours have been out of compt, iii.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
I have kept compt, still meaning to be just one day; but Avarice withheld me.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
T. I. presents compt. to I. T. and T. I. begs To say that i see the advertisement And she will Do Herself the pleasure of calling On you at 12 o’clock to-morrow morning.
From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Charles Dickens
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