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Account
ACCOUNT', n.
1. A sum stated on paper; a registry of a debt or credit; of debts and credits, or charges; an entry in a book or on paper of things bought or sold, of payments, services etc., including the names of the parties to the transaction, date, and price or value of the thing.
Account signifies a single entry or charge, or a statement of a number of particular debts and credits, in a book or on a separate paper; and in the plural, is used for the books containing such entries.
2. A computation of debts and credits, or a general statement of particular sums; as, the account stands thus; let him exhibit his account.
3. A computation or mode of reckoning; applied to other things, than money or trade; as the Julian account of time.
4. Narrative; relation; statement of facts; recital of particular transactions and events, verbal or written; as an account of the revolution in France. Hence,
5. An assignment of reasons; explanation by a recital of particular transactions, given by a person in an employment, or to a superior, often implying responsibility.
Give an account of thy stewardship. Luke 16.
Without responsibility or obligation.
He giveth not account of his matters. Job 33.
6. Reason or consideration, as a motive; as on all accounts, on every account.
7. Value; importance; estimation; that is, such a state of persons or things, as renders them worthy of more or less estimation; as men of account of him. Psa 144.
8. Profit; advantage; that is, a result or production worthy of estimation. To find our account in a pursuit; to turn to account.
9. Regard; behalf; sake; a sense deduced from charges on book; as on account of public affairs.
Put that to mine account. Phile 18.
To make account, that is, to have a pervious opinion or expectation, is a sense now obsolete.
A writ of account, in law, is a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant should render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; call also an action of account.
ACCOUNT', v.t.
1. To deem, judge, consider, think, or hold in opinion.
I and my son Solomon shall be accounted offenders.
1 Ki 1.
2. To account of, to hold in esteem; to value.
Let a man so account of us as of ministers of Christ.
1 Cor 4.
3. To reckon, or compute; as, the motion of the sun whereby years are accounted - also to assign as a debt; as, a project accounted to his service; but these uses are antiquated.
ACCOUNT', v.i.
1. To render an account or relation of particulars. An officer must account with or to the Treasurer for money received.
2. To give reasons; to assign the causes; to explain; with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.
3. To render reasons; to answer for in a responsible character.
We must account for all the talents entrusted to us.
account appears in definitions for these words:
Abacist Abatement Accessory Account Accountability Accountable Accountableness Accountant Accountbook Accounted Accounting Accurate Act Adjust Advance Adversaria Advertise Advertisement Ague-tree Albion Alienage Allocation Altarage Altin Amadou Amaranthus Amazon Amenable Amphicome Angel Anomalistic Answer Answerable Aporia Aqua Archcount Article Audit Auditor August Azote Bailed Balance Balancing Base Battel Bdellium Because Beneficiary Better Bewitch Bill Biographer Bissextile Black-bird Blank Bless Book Book-account Book-keeping Bookishness By Cabirian Call Camomile Carmine Carry Caryatides Cash-account Cash-book Cast Cause Cellarer Cellarist Challengeable Chamber Charact Characterize Charge Chronicle Chronologer Circumstantial Civil Clerk Club Collect Commissary Compiler Compt Comptible Concise Condole Confuse Confused Congratulate Congratulating Congratulation Consequence Consider Consign Contain Controll Controller Corpuscular Count Counter Countercaster Counterfoil Counterrolment Counterstock Counting-house Counting-room Credit Credited Crediting Cricket Cross Cunning Daybook Dayswork Dead-reckoning Debit Debited Debiting Debtor Defalcate Defaulter Defective Deoxydizing Deserve Detail Diary Diffuse Digamma Dignity Disallow Discount Discredit Disinterestedness Disorganize Ditto Divulge Dock Dominion Eagle Eld Embarrass Embezzlement Embolism Emissary Employ Enarration Enter Entry Enumeration Envy Envying Ephemeris Equalize Esteemed Etiology Etiquet Eulogist Eulogy Euphrasy Even-tide Exact Exactness Except Exclusive Exclusively Explicable Fabulous Factor Fancy Fast Favor Fear Fellowship Flattering Fling Flora Florin Florist Folio Fool Foot For Freely Gazette Genealogy Geography Gigantology Go Gratulate Gratulating Gratulation Gray Grieve Groat Happen Hearsay History Horography Horologiography Hypothesis Idle Impeach Impeachable Impeachment Imperceptible Improve Improvement Imputable Impute Imputed Imputing Inaccurately Independent Indiction Indite Insolvent Intelligence Intelligibility Intricacy Intricate Introduction Inventory Invoice Invoicing Item Itinerary Journal Julian Justiceable Justification Justify K Landstreight Lath Ledger Leger Lepidolite Livre Loan-office Look Lordship Love Lowness Madreporite Maja Make Many Mark Marque Martyr Martyrdom Martyrologist Martyrology Material Memoir Metallography Meteorolite Method Methodic Metrology Milkscore Mill Mischarge Misentry Misinformation Misreport Misrepresentation Misrepresenter Misstatement Mistake Money-matter Monograph Mount Muster-master Narrative Narratory Natrolite Naught Necrological Necrologist Necrology News Nick Noble Noctuary Obituary Observable Odd Odds Officially Offset Ominous Open Overcast Overcharge Pacific Paco Parapegm Parial Particularity Pass Pedigree Penitent Penny Pension Persecutor Pipe Pompous Poorness Post Posted Posting Postliminium Postmaster Pound Practice Praise Precious Prest Private Probable Probably Procuration Propolis Protest Puritan Quaker Quarantine Rationale Reach Reason Receipt Reckon Reckoned Reckoning Reconcilable Record Recusation Ree Regard Register Relation Religion Remembrance Render Rental Rentroll Repentance Report Reporter Reporting Repute Reputed Reputing Require Residue Responsibility Responsible Responsibleness Return Run Sake Satisfactory Save Scheme Schismatical Schismatically Schware Score Scoring Scruple Selenite Settle Settlement Sezin Shake Shopbook Short Sink Sorrowful Sou Square Stabbing Stand Sterling Steward Stiver Story Subject Sublapsary Succinct Summary Summer Supputation Surplusage Syllable Tale Talk Tally Tare Tell Temin Testoon Theory Thereat Tidings Trave Traverse-board Trepidation Trust Turn Unaccountability Unaccountable Unadjusted Unbalanced Uncertainty Unliquidated Value Verge Vessel Vestry-clerk Vild Vortex Voucher Vulgar Waste Water-fox Whale Word Year Yeoman
Abacist Abatement Accessory Account Accountability Accountable Accountableness Accountant Accountbook Accounted Accounting Accurate Act Adjust Advance Adversaria Advertise Advertisement Ague-tree Albion Alienage Allocation Altarage Altin Amadou Amaranthus Amazon Amenable Amphicome Angel Anomalistic Answer Answerable Aporia Aqua Archcount Article Audit Auditor August Azote Bailed Balance Balancing Base Battel Bdellium Because Beneficiary Better Bewitch Bill Biographer Bissextile Black-bird Blank Bless Book Book-account Book-keeping Bookishness By Cabirian Call Camomile Carmine Carry Caryatides Cash-account Cash-book Cast Cause Cellarer Cellarist Challengeable Chamber Charact Characterize Charge Chronicle Chronologer Circumstantial Civil Clerk Club Collect Commissary Compiler Compt Comptible Concise Condole Confuse Confused Congratulate Congratulating Congratulation Consequence Consider Consign Contain Controll Controller Corpuscular Count Counter Countercaster Counterfoil Counterrolment Counterstock Counting-house Counting-room Credit Credited Crediting Cricket Cross Cunning Daybook Dayswork Dead-reckoning Debit Debited Debiting Debtor Defalcate Defaulter Defective Deoxydizing Deserve Detail Diary Diffuse Digamma Dignity Disallow Discount Discredit Disinterestedness Disorganize Ditto Divulge Dock Dominion Eagle Eld Embarrass Embezzlement Embolism Emissary Employ Enarration Enter Entry Enumeration Envy Envying Ephemeris Equalize Esteemed Etiology Etiquet Eulogist Eulogy Euphrasy Even-tide Exact Exactness Except Exclusive Exclusively Explicable Fabulous Factor Fancy Fast Favor Fear Fellowship Flattering Fling Flora Florin Florist Folio Fool Foot For Freely Gazette Genealogy Geography Gigantology Go Gratulate Gratulating Gratulation Gray Grieve Groat Happen Hearsay History Horography Horologiography Hypothesis Idle Impeach Impeachable Impeachment Imperceptible Improve Improvement Imputable Impute Imputed Imputing Inaccurately Independent Indiction Indite Insolvent Intelligence Intelligibility Intricacy Intricate Introduction Inventory Invoice Invoicing Item Itinerary Journal Julian Justiceable Justification Justify K Landstreight Lath Ledger Leger Lepidolite Livre Loan-office Look Lordship Love Lowness Madreporite Maja Make Many Mark Marque Martyr Martyrdom Martyrologist Martyrology Material Memoir Metallography Meteorolite Method Methodic Metrology Milkscore Mill Mischarge Misentry Misinformation Misreport Misrepresentation Misrepresenter Misstatement Mistake Money-matter Monograph Mount Muster-master Narrative Narratory Natrolite Naught Necrological Necrologist Necrology News Nick Noble Noctuary Obituary Observable Odd Odds Officially Offset Ominous Open Overcast Overcharge Pacific Paco Parapegm Parial Particularity Pass Pedigree Penitent Penny Pension Persecutor Pipe Pompous Poorness Post Posted Posting Postliminium Postmaster Pound Practice Praise Precious Prest Private Probable Probably Procuration Propolis Protest Puritan Quaker Quarantine Rationale Reach Reason Receipt Reckon Reckoned Reckoning Reconcilable Record Recusation Ree Regard Register Relation Religion Remembrance Render Rental Rentroll Repentance Report Reporter Reporting Repute Reputed Reputing Require Residue Responsibility Responsible Responsibleness Return Run Sake Satisfactory Save Scheme Schismatical Schismatically Schware Score Scoring Scruple Selenite Settle Settlement Sezin Shake Shopbook Short Sink Sorrowful Sou Square Stabbing Stand Sterling Steward Stiver Story Subject Sublapsary Succinct Summary Summer Supputation Surplusage Syllable Tale Talk Tally Tare Tell Temin Testoon Theory Thereat Tidings Trave Traverse-board Trepidation Trust Turn Unaccountability Unaccountable Unadjusted Unbalanced Uncertainty Unliquidated Value Verge Vessel Vestry-clerk Vild Vortex Voucher Vulgar Waste Water-fox Whale Word Year Yeoman
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