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  compt

  verb (used with or without object)

  an archaic spelling of count.
• compt.
  compt.

  abbreviation

  comptroller.

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

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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

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

I have kept compt, still meaning to be just one day; but Avarice withheld me.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade

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