Word Finder - reckoning

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To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.

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To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.

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To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause

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I reckon he won't try that again.

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To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host

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To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.

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To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

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The action of calculating or estimating something.

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By that reckoning, it would take six weeks to go five miles.

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An opinion or judgement.

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A summing up or appraisal.

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The settlement of accounts, as between parties.

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The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.

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The bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.

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Rank or status.

Their reckoning shows the same peculiarity.

Pierre walked along, looking from side to side, counting his steps in threes, and reckoning them off on his fingers.

But that scribes could make mistakes in their reckoning is definitely proved by the discovery at Shergat of two totally conflicting accounts of the age and history of the great temple of Assur.

There is no evidence that this artificial reckoning according to the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet was ever much more than a fanciful suggestion.

But the day of reckoning could not be postponed for ever; and when the estates met in 1765 it brought the Caps into power at last.

In this spirit he offered the most decided opposition to those circles at the court of Vienna which advocated a bloody reckoning with Serbia.

Thus he vacillates between the Catonian and Varronian reckoning of the years of the city, and between the chronologies of Polybius and the Roman annalists.

Abyssinian reckoning is about seven years eight months behind the Gregorian.

Timothy Dwight (1752-1847) urged the use of the means of grace, thought Hopkins and Emmons pantheistic, and boldly disagreed with their theory of " exercises," reckoning virtue and sin as the result of moral choice or disposition, a position that was also upheld by Asa Burton (1752-1836), who thought that on regeneration the disposition of man got a new relish or " taste."

The urban population, reckoning as such dwellers in the nine largest towns and their suburbs, exceeds 331,000, being nearly 25% of the total population of the colony proper.

The dignity of sherif (or grand sherif, as Europeans usually say for the sake of distinction, since all the kin of the princely houses reckoning descent from the Prophet are also named sherifs), although by no means a religious pontificate, is highly respected owing to its traditional descent in the line of Hasan, son of the fourth caliph `Ali.

The tables which he drew up from information obtained from all the presbyteries of Scotland were based on a system of actuarial calculation that supplied a precedent followed by insurance companies in modern times for reckoning averages of longevity.

The work, which is imperfect at the beginning and end (breaking off in the year 627), is preceded by an introduction on the Christian methods of reckoning time and the Easter cycle.

His studies included Roman law, astronomy, astrology, the art of reckoning and the difficulties of the calendar.

Joined by the Rauraci, Tulingi, Latobrigi and some of the Boii - according to their own reckoning 368,000 in all - they agreed to meet on the 28th of 1 Some of the delegates, especially Bucer, were anxious to effect a union of the Reformed and Lutheran Churches.

According to their reckoning, they should be in the general area of the mine, but the only sight before them was a steep upward slope sparsely covered with brush.

Amazing navigation " Do you mean to say you did it all on mere dead reckoning?

This class of skin is the most expensive fur in the world, reckoning values by a square foot unit.

Then from 1st January 1900 the old reckoning by gulden was superseded, that by krone being introduced in all government accounts, the new silver being made a legal tender only for a limited amount.

This method of reckoning became known as the Alexandrian era, and was adopted by almost all the eastern churches.

It is obvious that, both in its values and in its measurements, the survey's reckoning is very crude.

Apart from the fact that reckoning from the birth of Christ was by no means universal, and consequently the mass of men were ignorant that there was such a thing as the year 1000, one wonders how that most enduring type of architecture, the Romanesque, reached its maturity among men who thought that the earth itself was so soon to "shrivel like a parched scroll."

We infer that on our reckoning the force of gravity on a mass m is to be measured by mg, the momentum produced per second when this force acts alone.

Now in Homer there are upwards of 80 second aorists (not reckoning aorists of " Verbs in µc," such as i'ar,Y, i,3rpv), whereas in all Attic prose not more than 30 are found.

In one or two cases the number of spindles is obtained approximately by reckoning twenty spindles per loom, which is about the average for the Indian mills.

Now, with Bosnia's guns at least temporarily silenced, comes the bitter reckoning.

Last year's winner Step Quick and grand campaigner General Claremont enter the reckoning.

From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.

Using some Dutch reckoning, he asserted that the peasants would use his country's namesake defense within two days and give up.

On 14 December, by ' dead reckoning ', they were at the South Pole.

His system went behind the final reckoning to books of prime entry.

By his own reckoning, Harris ' early ministry set the standard for later years.

He returned to the club at the turn of the year, but never forced his way back into the first-team reckoning.

The half day is subtracted so that the day starts at midnight in conformance with civil time reckoning.

And will the English racers take enough points off each other to allow Farrell to feature in the title reckoning despite his partial program?

A new second lieutenant must have mastered map reading and land navigation skills, and have an aptitude for dead reckoning and terrain association.

Please place your money on the cards or I may get muddled in the reckoning.

And he again started reckoning.

Handley 's piece on the reckoning of time brings out the genuinely anomalous incidence of consular dating within the territories of the Burgundian kingdom.

Now, with Bosnia 's guns at least temporarily silenced, comes the bitter reckoning.

Pay The Reckoning will be at the front of the queue to find out !

Last year 's winner Step Quick and grand campaigner General Claremont enter the reckoning.

Using some Dutch reckoning, he asserted that the peasants would use his country 's namesake defense within two days and give up.

By the Government 's current reckoning at 1 percent above base they would pay £ 60 million in back payments.

A collection of jettons or reckoning counters is also held.

And various attempts have been made to explain it in accordance with Jewish methods of reckoning time.

But a day of reckoning approaches, Beetle mine.

Obviously brilliant dead reckoning navigation helped considerably by the coming of dawn !

An ominous figure approaches him and says he needs to collect seven Chaos Emeralds for him because the day of reckoning is at hand.

In WWE Day of Reckoning 2, gamers pick up the controllers yet one more time, and have a howl of a time between headlocks and suplexes.