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
Example Sentences
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And "Almighty Allah, O my son, hath given thy father monies past compt."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Your servants ever Have theirs, themselves, and what is theirs, in compt, To make their audit at your highness' pleasure, Still to return your own.
From Macbeth by Shakespeare, William
Whereas Elegance consists in the compt, well pruned and succinct Turn of a Subject.
From An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) by Clifford, James L.
G, "was of good compt, fyve and twentie hundreth men," &c.
From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Laing, David
O thou whose favours have been out of compt, iii.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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