calcule

plural calcules

1. obsoleteA reckoning; computation.First known use 1601–1754

   the generall calcule which was made in the last perambulation exceeded eight millions

   1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC

present singular third person calcules · participle present calculing · participle past calculed · past calculed

1. ambitransitiveespeciallyobsoleteastrologyTo calculate, reckon.First known use 1377–1559

   So whā this Calcas knewe by calculing ¶ And eke by the anſwere of this god Apollo ¶ That grekes ſhulde ſuch a people bryng ¶ Thorowe which that Troye muſt be tordo ¶ He caſt anon out of the towne to go

   So when this Calkas knew by calkulynge, ¶ And ek by answer of this Apollo, ¶ That Grekes sholden swiche a peple brynge, ¶ Thorugh which that Troye moste ben fordo, ¶ He caste anon out of the town to go.

   c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye … [Troilus and Criseyde] (in Middle English), [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book I, [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio clxvii, recto, column 2, lines 71–75