Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COUNT, v.t. [Fr. conter; It. contare; Sp. Port. contar; Arm. counta or contein. Qu. the root. The Fr. has compter, also, from the L. computo; the Sp. and Port. computar, and the It. computare. The Eng. count is directly from conter; and it may be a question whether conter and contar are from the L. computo.]

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 man's life; to count the stars. Who can count the dust of Jacob? – Numb. xxiii.
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. – Locke.
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. – Gen. xv.
4. To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge or consider. I count them my enemies. – Ps. cxxxix. Neither count I my life dear to myself. – Acts xx. I count all things loss. – Phil. iii.
5. To impute; to charge. – Rowe.