Meanings
present singular third person reckons up · participle present reckoning up · participle past reckoned up · past reckoned up
- To add up; count up; compute the amount of; tally; come to an accounting of.
How many things are there which I ought to reckon up, that I have neglected; and how many others are there, which, if I did reckon them up, would overwhelm me with confusion. The grocer has given me a subject that I shall do well to pursue.
1851, The Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, page 601 more example
Of the Anabaptiſts, the ſame Author [Alexander Ross] Sect. 12. reckons up a great many different Sects, as the Mancerians, the Separatiſts, the Cathariſts, the Apoſtolicks, the Enthuſiaſts, the Silentes, the Adamites, the Liberi, the Hutites, the Melchioriſts, the Menoniſts, the Beucheldians, the Auguſtinians, the Denkians, and many others.
1735, [Richard Challoner], “Of [Martin] Luther’s Quarrel with Carlostadius [i.e., Andreas Karlstadt], and of the Divisions That Insued Thereupon amongst Protestants: […]”, in A Short History of the First Beginning and Progress of the Protestant Religion. […], London: […] H. Brabham, […], →OCLC, page 17 - informaltransitiveTo harshly criticize.
We reckoned him up pretty bad.
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