From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
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This excellent man . . . counted among the best and
wisest of English statesmen. --J. A.
Symonds.
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2. To reckon; to rely; to depend; -- with on or upon.
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He was brewer to the palace; and it was apprehended
that the government counted on his voice.
--Macaulay.
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I think it a great error to count upon the genius of
a nation as a standing argument in all ages.
--Swift.
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3. To take account or note; -- with of. [Obs.] "No man counts
of her beauty." --Shak.
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4. (Eng. Law) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to
recite a count. --Burrill.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
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Who can count the dust of Jacob? --Num. xxiii.
10.
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In a journey of forty miles, Avaux counted only
three miserable cabins. --Macaulay.
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2. To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider
or esteem as belonging.
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Abracham believed God, and it was counted unto him
for righteousness. --Rom. iv. 3.
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3. To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or
consider.
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I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends. --Shak.
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{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}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
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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.
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{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]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
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Of blessed saints for to increase the count.
--Spenser.
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By this count, I shall be much in years. --Shak.
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2. An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
[Obs.] "All his care and count." --Spenser.
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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.
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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.
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