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COUNT,

1. To number to tell or name one by one, or by small numbers, for ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection as, to count the years, days and hours of a mans life to count the stars.

Who can count the dust of Jacob? Numbers 23 .

2. To reckon to preserve a reckoning to compute.

Some tribes of rude nations count their years by the coming of certain birds among them at certain seasons, and leaving them at others.

3. To reckon to place to an account to ascribe or impute to consider or esteem as belonging.

Abraham believed in God, and he counted it to him for righteousness. Genesis 15 .

4. To esteem to account to reckon to think, judge, or consider.

I count them my enemies. Psalms 139 .

Neither count I my life dear to myself. Acts 20 .

I count all things loss. Philippians 3 .

5. To impute to charge.

COUNT, To count on or upon, to reckon upon to found an account or scheme on to rely on. We cannot count on the friendship of nations. Count not on the sincerity of sycophants.

COUNT, n.

1. Reckoning the act of numbering as, this is the number according to my count.
2. Number.
3. In law, a particular charge in an indictment, or narration in pleading, setting forth the cause of complaint. There may be different counts in the same declaration.

COUNT, n. L., a companion or associate, a fellow traveler. A title of foreign nobility, equivalent to the English earl, and whose domain is a county. An earl the alderman of a shire, as the Saxons called him. The titles of English nobility, according to their rank, are Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, and Baron.

Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Count'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​c/count.html.
 
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