ACCOUNT', n. 1. A sum stated on paper; a registry of a debt or credit; of debts and credits, or charges; an entry in a book or on paper of things bought or sold, of payments, services &c., including the names of the parties to the transaction, date, and price or value of the thing.Account signifies a single entry or charge, or a statement of a number of particular debts and credits, in a book or on a separate paper; and in the plural, is used for the books containing such entries.2. A computation of debts and credits, or a general statement of particular sums; as, the account stands thus; let him exhibit his account.3. A computation or mode of reckoning; applied to other things, than money or trade; as the Julian account of time.4. Narrative; relation; statement of facts; recital of particular transactions and events, verbal or written; as an account of the revolution in France. Hence,5. An assignment of reasons; explanation by a recital of particular transactions, given by a person in an employment, or to a superior, often implying responsibility.Give an account of thy stewardship. Luke, 16.Without responsibility or obligation.He giveth not account of his matters. Job, 33.6. Reason or consideration, as a motive; as on all accounts, on every account.7. Value; importance; estimation; that is, such a state of persons or things, as renders them worthy of more or less estimation; as men of account of him. Ps. 144.8. Profit; advantage; that is, a result or production worthy of estimation. To find our account in a pursuit; to turn to account.9. Regard; behalf; sake; a sense deduced from charges on book; as on account of public affairs.Put that to mine account. Philem. 18.To make account, that is, to have a pervious opinion or expectation, is a sense now obsolete.A writ of account, in law, is a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant should render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; call also an action of account. |
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