compute
verb (used with object)
to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate.
computist
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a word derived from
compute.
Example Sentences
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A thousand stories which the ignorant tell and believe die away at once when the computist takes them in his gripe.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell
This girl, who if she had been fed on poetry and works of imagination, might have become a Miss Sparkes, now rather gives herself the airs of a calculator and of a grave computist.
From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More
