The priest shall reckon to him the money according
to the years that remain. --Lev. xxvii.
18.
I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the
outside of the church. --Addison.
2. 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.
He was reckoned among the transgressors. --Luke
xxii. 37.
For him I reckon not in high estate. --Milton.
3. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a
certain quality or value.
Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
--Rom. iv. 9.
Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for
a crime. --Hawthorne.
4. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of
chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an
objective clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again.
[Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
Syn: To number; enumerate; compute; calculate; estimate;
value; esteem; account; repute. See {Calculate},
{Guess}.
Even reckoning makes lasting friends, and the
way to make reckonings even is to make them
often. --South.
He quitted London, never to return till the day
of a terrible and memorable reckoning had
arrived. --Macaulay.
2. The charge or account made by a host at an inn.
A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a
reckoning. --Addison.
3. Esteem; account; estimation.
You make no further reckoning of it [beauty] than of
an outward fading benefit nature bestowed. --Sir P.
Sidney.
4. (Navigation)
(a) The calculation of a ship's position, either from
astronomical observations, or from the record of the
courses steered and distances sailed as shown by
compass and log, -- in the latter case called dead
reckoning (see under {Dead}); -- also used fro dead
reckoning in contradistinction to observation.
(b) The position of a ship as determined by calculation.
{To be out of her reckoning}, to be at a distance from the
place indicated by the reckoning; -- said of a ship.