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Count   /kaʊnt/   Listen
noun
Count  n.  
1.
The act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number ascertained by counting. "Of blessed saints for to increase the count." "By this count, I shall be much in years."
2.
An object of interest or account; value; estimation. (Obs.) "All his care and count."
3.
(Law) A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution. Note: In the old law books, count was used synonymously with declaration. When the plaintiff has but a single cause of action, and makes but one statement of it, that statement is called indifferently count or declaration, most generally, however, the latter. But where the suit embraces several causes, or the plaintiff makes several different statements of the same cause of action, each statement is called a count, and all of them combined, a declaration.


Count  n.  A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl. Note: Though the tittle Count has never been introduced into Britain, the wives of Earls have, from the earliest period of its history, been designated as Countesses.
Count palatine.
(a)
Formerly, the proprietor of a county who possessed royal prerogatives within his county, as did the Earl of Chester, the Bishop of Durham, and the Duke of Lancaster. (Eng.) See County palatine, under County.
(b)
Originally, a high judicial officer of the German emperors; afterward, the holder of a fief, to whom was granted the right to exercise certain imperial powers within his own domains. (Germany)


verb
Count  v. t.  (past & past part. counted; pres. part. counting)  
1.
To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon. "Who can count the dust of Jacob?" "In a journey of forty miles, Avaux counted only three miserable cabins."
2.
To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging. "Abracham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness."
3.
To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider. "I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends."
To count out.
(a)
To exclude (one) from consideration; to be assured that (one) will not participate or cannot be depended upon.
(b)
(House of Commons) To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present.
(c)
To prevent the accession of (a person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes cast; said of a candidate really elected. (Colloq.)
Synonyms: To calculate; number; reckon; compute; enumerate. See Calculate.


Count  v. i.  
1.
To number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing. "This excellent man... counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen."
2.
To reckon; to rely; to depend; with on or upon. "He was brewer to the palace; and it was apprehended that the government counted on his voice." "I think it a great error to count upon the genius of a nation as a standing argument in all ages."
3.
To take account or note; with of. (Obs.) "No man counts of her beauty."
4.
(Eng. Law) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.





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... to take it up—that she had actually in man's garb passed for the Bar and pleaded successfully before juries, appalled some of the lawyer-ministers by its revolutionary audacity. They might not be able to punish her on that count or on several others of the misdemeanours imputed to her; but they had got her, for sure, on Arson; and on the arson not of suburban churches, which occurred sometimes at Peckham or in the suburbs of Birmingham and made people laugh a little ...
— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston
... consideration, both character and behaviour are far better than one has reason to expect. Here, as in many other respects, Victoria is the most pronounced example of what may be called Australianism as opposed to Englishism. Up to the present moment, she is the only Australian colony (I do not count New Zealand) which pays her legislators, and consequently she has at once the cleverest and the worst-behaved set. There are very few members of her parliament who can claim to possess any real political ...
— Town Life in Australia - 1883 • R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny
... ennoblement. She had supposed that one who could write such music must have the command of money and the influence of wealthy patrons—yet how different were the facts! Haydn's relation ended, the Countess assured him that thenceforth he might count upon her as his friend and well-wisher as well as pupil, and the happy young musician, having attempted to express his thanks, withdrew with a heart ...
— Story-Lives of Great Musicians • Francis Jameson Rowbotham
... sore eyes, to withdraw their sight from bright and offensive colors to green, and those of a softer mixture, from whence can a man seek, in his own case, better arguments of consolation for afflictions in his family, than from the prosperity of his country, by making public and domestic chances count, so to say, together, and the better fortune of the state obscure and conceal the less happy circumstances of the individual. I have been induced to say so much, because I have known many readers melted by Aeschines's language into a soft ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough
... that should not count when the reward for taking up this case is so enormous—and I dare say it ...
— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces • Thomas W. Hanshew


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