compt

English

Etymology 1

From Latin comptus, past participle of comere (“to care for, comb, arrange, adorn”).

Adjective

compt (comparative more compt, superlative most compt)

1. (obsolete) neat; spruce
   • 1623, John Vicars, Æneid:

     A compt, accomplished prince.

Etymology 2

From French compte.

Noun

compt

1. (obsolete) account; reckoning; computation
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Your servants ever have theirs,/Themselves and what is theirs, in compt, /To make their audit at your highness' pleasure, /Still to return your own.

Etymology 3

From English comptroller.

Noun

compt

1. Alternative form of compt.

Etymology 4

Verb

compt (third-person singular simple present compts, present participle compting, simple past and past participle compted)

1. (obsolete) To compute; to count.
   • 1792, John Spalding, The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland, page 340:

     For some were warded in the Pittie-vault, some set caution to remove from the town, after they had compted and reckoned for their tavernry with their mistresses; […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “compt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)