account of

present singular third person accounts of · participle present accounting of · participle past accounted of · past accounted of

1. archaictransitivenow usually passive voiceTo esteem; to prize; to value.

   Never was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century.

   1863, Rev. Canon Robinson, “Sermons and Preaching”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume VII, page 410

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   Valentine. I mean that her beauty is exquisite, but her favour infinite. / Speed. That's because the one is painted, and the other out of all count. / Valentine. How painted? and how out of count? / Speed. Marry, sir, so painted, to make her fair, that no man counts of her beauty. / Valentine. How esteem'st thou me? I account of her beauty. / Speed. You never saw her since she was deformed?

   1591, William Shakespeare, edited by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, published 1921, page 17

   Bard, Hoskuld’s son, had also been a seafarer, and was well accounted of wherever he went, for he was the best of brave men and true, and a man of moderation in all things.

   1964 [13th c.], Muriel Press, transl., edited by Peter Foote, The Laxdale Saga, pages 78–9