compt

English

Etymology 1

From Latin comptus, past participle of comere (“to care for, comb, arrange, adorn”).

Adjective

compt (comparative more compt, superlative most compt)

  1. (obsolete) neat; spruce
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Etymology 2

From French compte.

Noun

compt

  1. (obsolete) account; reckoning; computation
    • 1608, William Shakespeare, Macbeth:
      Your servants ever have theirs,/Themselves and what is theirs, in compt, /To make their audit at your highness' pleasure, /Still to return your own.

Verb

compt (third-person singular simple present compts, present participle compting, simple past and past participle compted)

  1. (obsolete) To compute; to count.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for compt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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