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  compt

  verb (used with or without object)

  an archaic spelling of count.
• compt.
  compt.

  abbreviation

  comptroller.

compt

¹ American  

[kaunt] / 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

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compt compt.

But one thing most chiefly doth trouble me here: My neighbours inconstant will compt me, I fear.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt

Herodotus writeth that thethiopians named Macrobij, do more estieme latten then thei do golde whiche thei put to nothyng that thei compt of any price.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Richard Hakluyt

The particulars whow I spent and gave out the same is in a compt apart beside me.

From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Lord John Lauder Fountainhall

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 Peter Anthony Motteux

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 Sir Richard Francis Burton

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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