Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AC-COUNT'
AC-COUNT', v.i.
- To render an account or relation of particulars. An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
- To give reasons; to assign the causes; to explain; with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.
- To render reasons; to answer for in a responsible character; as, we must account for all the talents intrusted to us.
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