FromMiddle Englishaccompt.
accompt (pluralaccompts)
- (archaic)Account.
1778, “Method of Balancing Accounts at the Year’s End”, inKearsley’s Gentleman and Tradesman’s Pocket Ledger, for the Year 1778:[...], London: Printed for G. Kearsley, […],→OCLC,page184:You muſt make anaccompt of balance on the next void leaf or folio of your ledger to your otheraccompts; but after ſo done, do not venture to draw out theaccompt of balance in the ſaid folio, till you have made it exact on a ſheet of paper, ruled and titled for that purpoſe, becauſe of miſtakes or errors that may occur or happen in the courſe of ballancing your ledger;[…]
1821, Bank of England,The Bank - The Stock Exchange - The Bankers ..., page64:Thisaccompt has been made to appear a bull accompt,i.e. that the bulls cannot take their stock. The fact is the reverse; it is a bearaccompt, but the bears, unable to deliver their stock, have conjointly banged the market, and pocketed the tickets, to defeat the rise and loss that would have ensued to them by their buying on a rising price on theaccompt day[…]
accompt (third-person singular simple presentaccompts,present participleaccompting,simple past and past participleaccompted)
- (archaic) Toaccount.
accompt
- alternative form ofacounte
accompt
- alternative form ofacounten
