Count \Count\ (kount), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Counted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Counting}.] [OF. conter, and later (etymological spelling) compter, in modern French thus distinguished; conter to relate (cf. {Recount}, {Account}), compter to count; fr. L. computuare to reckon, compute; com- + putare to reckon, settle, order, prune, orig., to clean. See {Pure}, and cf. {Compute}.] 1. To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon.
Who can count the dust of Jacob? --Num. xxiii. 10.
In a journey of forty miles, Avaux counted only three miserable cabins. --Macaulay.
2. To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.
Abracham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. --Rom. iv. 3.
3. To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.
I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends. --Shak.
{To count out}. (a) To exclude (one) from consideration; to be assured that (one) will not participate or cannot be depended upon. (b) (House of Commons) To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present. (c) To prevent the accession of (a person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes cast; -- said of a candidate really elected. [Colloq.]
Syn: To calculate; number; reckon; compute; enumerate. See {Calculate}.
Count \Count\, n. [F. conte, fr. L. comes, comitis, associate, companion, one of the imperial court or train, properly, one who goes with another; com- + ire to go, akin to Skr. i to go.] A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl.
Note: Though the tittle Count has never been introduced into Britain, the wives of Earls have, from the earliest period of its history, been designated as Countesses. --Brande & C.
{Count palatine}. (a) Formerly, the proprietor of a county who possessed royal prerogatives within his county, as did the Earl of Chester, the Bishop of Durham, and the Duke of Lancaster. [Eng.] See {County palatine}, under {County}. (b) Originally, a high judicial officer of the German emperors; afterward, the holder of a fief, to whom was granted the right to exercise certain imperial powers within his own domains. [Germany]
Count \Count\, n. [F. conte and compte, with different meanings, fr. L. computus a computation, fr. computare. See {Count}, v. t.] 1. The act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number ascertained by counting.
Of blessed saints for to increase the count. --Spenser.
By this count, I shall be much in years. --Shak.
2. An object of interest or account; value; estimation. [Obs.] ``All his care and count.'' --Spenser.
3. (Law) A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution. --Wharton.
Note: In the old law books, count was used synonymously with declaration. When the plaintiff has but a single cause of action, and makes but one statement of it, that statement is called indifferently count or declaration, most generally, however, the latter. But where the suit embraces several causes, or the plaintiff makes several different statements of the same cause of action, each statement is called a count, and all of them combined, a declaration. --Bouvier. Wharton.
Count \Count\, v. i. 1. To number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing.
This excellent man . . . counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen. --J. A. Symonds.
2. To reckon; to rely; to depend; -- with on or upon.
He was brewer to the palace; and it was apprehended that the government counted on his voice. --Macaulay.
I think it a great error to count upon the genius of a nation as a standing argument in all ages. --Swift.
3. To take account or note; -- with of. [Obs.] ``No man counts of her beauty.'' --Shak.
4. (Eng. Law) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count. --Burrill.
By official count, about 200 people were killed and more than 1,700 others injured.
Former RCA employee Leonard Kampf and current RCA employee Ronald Stevens each pleaded guilty to one felony count and face sentencing April 6.
Gayle Turenne, 31, was charged Wednesday in a warrant with one count of possession of cocaine, said Lt.
The others were forced to watch and keep count, authorities also said.
In another apparent attempt to mollify bank holding companies, the Fed allowed them to count as capital whatever good will they had on their books as of last March and apply it toward the 8% capital requirement.
By official count, 12 people had been killed and more than 100 wounded in violence since Sunday when Tibetans marched in Lhasa, demanding an end to nearly four decades of communist rule and the return of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
Many Hungarians who fled to the West after the 1956 Soviet invasion now carry other citizenship and so do not count as refugees.
This year's shipments of Soviet ordnance and supplies had exceeded 20,000 tons at last count, which means record shipments are likely for all of 1986.
Informed that he could not, he asked if the rejection letter from the American Society of Rejected Writers would count as a rejection.
Dempsey could face up to 30 years in prison on the assault count and a maximum seven-year term on the AIDS exposure count.
Dempsey could face up to 30 years in prison on the assault count and a maximum seven-year term on the AIDS exposure count.
By police count, 2,759 people have died in political killings since the violence began in 1969.
Michael Trant, who was an associate deputy attorney general, pleaded guilty to one count of cocaine possession.
The boats can handle more than 7,000 passengers, and the Tuesday morning count was about 3,200, he said.
First, some discouraged workers have simply stopped looking for jobs, and therefore no longer count among the unemployed.
I have eaten more of these dumplings - really a well-balanced light meal - than I care to count, and enjoyed them all.
Last week, the rig count had risen by eight to total 991.
He expects the U.S. rig count will average 1,074 in 1991, up from 1,010 last year.
That was 36 fewer than the previous year's count, Rodgers said.
By police count, 11 people have been killed and 47 wounded in the previous three car bombings since Jan. 13.
The Social Security count against Mr. Lareau is a felony, punishable by maximum penalties of five years in prison and $6,000 in fines.
Among major oil producing states, Oklahoma lost six rigs, Wyoming's count was down by five and Texas had a decrease of four. New Mexico and California each lost two, and Colorado lost one.
Among states reporting gains for the week are Louisiana, which added eight; Texas, up by three; and Michigan and North Dakota, which each increased its count by one rig.
He said the U.S. Air Force count of 52 dead was "incorrect." He said 40 of the dead had been identified: 33 West Germans, two Americans, a Dutch citizen and one from France, and the three Italian pilots involved in the collision.
The inter-Christian fighting for control of the Christian heartland east and northeast of Beirut killed more than 76 people and wounded 200, by police count.
New Mexico's rig count was down by six, Louisiana lost four rigs and North Dakota dropped one rig.
According to an unofficial count by the private National Movement for Free Elections, the draft charter was backed by a 4-to-1 margin.
In addition, the liberal churches can no longer, as they once could, count on the social mobility factor for new members.
Panamanian boxing champion Roberto Duran said Friday he hopes the use of his luxurious apartment by U.S. troops will count toward the community service he has been sentenced to in a Florida court for driving while intoxicated.
An Associated Press tabulation showed Bush leading for 356 electoral votes, although he could not yet count securely on the 270 needed for victory.