compt

¹ American  

[kount] / kaʊnt /

verb (used with or without object)

Archaic.

1. an archaic spelling of count.

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compt. ² American  

abbreviation

1. comptroller.

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Example Sentences

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

G, "was of good compt, fyve and twentie hundreth men," &c.

From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Laing, David

And my wife will be jocund, feat, compt, neat, quaint, dainty, trim, tricked up, brisk, smirk, and smug, even as a pretty little Cornish chough.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

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 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