compt

[ kount ]

verb (used with or without object), nounArchaic.

Other definitions for compt. (2 of 2)

compt.

abbreviation

We find ourselves in the wood, where the ringing of the evening-bell reaches our ear from the little chapel in Franche compt.
O. T. | Hans Christian Andersen
Whereas Elegance consists in the compt, well pruned and succinct Turn of a Subject.
An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) | Corbyn Morris
Contribution à localisation des bactéroïdes dans les corps adipeux des blattes (Periplaneta orientalis L.) compt.
The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches | Louis M. Roth
Editors in general follow Theobald in reading for 'Come' compt.
The Shakespeare-Expositor: An Aid to the Perfect Understanding of Shakespeare's Plays | Thomas Keightley
In MS. G, "was of good compt, fyve and twentie hundreth men," &c.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) | John Knox

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