ACCOUNT', n.

1. To deem, judge, consider, think, or hold in opinion. I and my son Solomon shall be accounted offenders. – 1 Kings i.
2. To account of, to hold in esteem; to value. Let a man so account of us as of ministers of Christ. – 1 Cor. iv. Silver was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon. – 1 Kings, x.
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.

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, &c., 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 xvi. Without responsibility or obligation. He giveth not account of his matters. – Job xxxiii.
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. What is the son of man that thou makest account of him. – Ps. cxliv.
8. Profit; advantage; that is, a result or production worthy of estimation. To find our account in a pursuit; to turn to account. – Philip. iv.
9. Regard; behalf; sake; a sense deduced from charges on book; as, on account of public affairs. Put that to my account. – Philem. 18. To make account, that is, to have a previous opinion or expectation, is a sense now obsolete. A writ of account, in law, is a writ which the plaintif brings demanding that the defendant should render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; called also an action of account. – Cowel.

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; as, we must account for all the talents intrusted to us.

1. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
   
   

   A beggarly account of empty boxes.
   Shak.

2. To reckon; to compute; to count.
   
   
   [Obs.]

   The motion of . . . the sun whereby years are accounted.
   Sir T. Browne.

3. To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
4. A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.
5. To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to.
   
   
   [R.] Clarendon.
6. To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.
7. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.
8. To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
   
   

   Accounting that God was able to raise him up.
   Heb. xi. 19.

9. To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.
   
   

   To account of, to esteem; to prize; to value. Now used only in the passive. "I account of her beauty." Shak.

   Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century.
   Canon Robinson.

10. A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.
    
    
    "A laudable account of the city of London." Howell.
11. To recount; to relate.
    
    
    [Obs.] Chaucer.
12. A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
    
    

    Give an account of thy stewardship.
    Luke xvi. 2.

13. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
    
    
    "To stand high in your account." Shak.
14. Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
    
    
    "Men of account." Pope. "To turn to account." Shak.

    Account current, a running or continued account between two or more parties, or a statement of the particulars of such an account. -- In account with, in a relation requiring an account to be kept. -- On account of, for the sake of; by reason of; because of. -- On one's own account, for one's own interest or behalf. -- To make account, to have an opinion or expectation; to reckon. [Obs.]

    This other part . . . makes account to find no slender arguments for this assertion out of those very scriptures which are commonly urged against it.
    Milton.

    -- To make account of, to hold in estimation; to esteem; as, he makes small account of beauty. -- To take account of, or to take into account, to take into consideration; to notice. "Of their doings, God takes no account." Milton. -- A writ of account (Law), a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; -- called also an action of account. Cowell.

    Syn. -- Narrative; narration; relation; recital; description; explanation; rehearsal. -- Account, Narrative, Narration, Recital. These words are applied to different modes of rehearsing a series of events. Account turns attention not so much to the speaker as to the fact related, and more properly applies to the report of some single event, or a group of incidents taken as whole; as, an account of a battle, of a shipwreck, etc. A narrative is a continuous story of connected incidents, such as one friend might tell to another; as, a narrative of the events of a siege, a narrative of one's life, etc. Narration is usually the same as narrative, but is sometimes used to describe the mode of relating events; as, his powers of narration are uncommonly great. Recital denotes a series of events drawn out into minute particulars, usually expressing something which peculiarly interests the feelings of the speaker; as, the recital of one's wrongs, disappointments, sufferings, etc.