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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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Oh ill-Starr'd wench, Pale as thy Smocke: when we shall meete at compt, This looke of thine will hurle my Soule from Heauen, And Fiends will snatch at it.

From Othello by William Shakespeare

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

Besydis thare grammare, and other humane authoris, he redd unto thame a catechisme, a compt whairof he caused thame geve publictlie in the parishe Kirk of Sanctandrois.

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

Take the bonds along with you, And have the dates in compt.

From Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare

Now I have looked upon our lord Solomon while he was yet living and I have witnessed wonders beyond compt and conception.'

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 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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