·noun Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
II. Account ·noun An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
III. Account ·vt To Recount; to Relate.
IV. Account ·vt To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to Deem.
V. Account ·noun A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
VI. Account ·vt To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to Assign;
— with to.
VII. Account ·vt To Reckon; to Compute; to Count.
VIII. Account ·noun A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
IX. Account ·vi To render an account; to answer in judgment;
— with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.
X. Account ·vi To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
XI. Account ·vi To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to Explain;
— with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.
XII. Account ·noun A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.
XIII. Account ·noun A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.
XIV. Account ·noun A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, ·etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, ·etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.