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Account \Ac*count"\, n. [OE. acount, account, accompt, OF. acont, fr. aconter. See Account, v. t., Count, n.,

  1. ] 1. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

    A beggarly account of empty boxes.
    --Shak.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle. ``A laudable account of the city of London.''
    --Howell.

  5. A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.

    Give an account of thy stewardship.
    --Luke xvi. 2.

  6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. ``To stand high in your account.''
    --Shak.

  7. Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit. ``Men of account.''
    --Pope. ``To turn to account.''
    --Shak.

    Account current, a running or continued account between two or more parties, or a statement of the particulars of such an account.

    In account with, in a relation requiring an account to be kept.

    On account of, for the sake of; by reason of; because of.

    On one's own account, for one's own interest or behalf.

    To make account, to have an opinion or expectation; to reckon. [Obs.]

    This other part . . . makes account to find no slender arguments for this assertion out of those very scriptures which are commonly urged against it.
    --Milton.

    To make account of, to hold in estimation; to esteem; as, he makes small account of beauty.

    To take account of, or to take into account, to take into consideration; to notice. ``Of their doings, God takes no account.''
    --Milton .

    A writ of account (Law), a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; -- called also an action of account.
    --Cowell.

    Syn: Narrative; narration; relation; recital; description; explanation; rehearsal.

    Usage: Account, Narrative, Narration, Recital. These words are applied to different modes of rehearsing a series of events. Account turns attention not so much to the speaker as to the fact related, and more properly applies to the report of some single event, or a group of incidents taken as whole; as, an account of a battle, of a shipwreck, etc. A narrative is a continuous story of connected incidents, such as one friend might tell to another; as, a narrative of the events of a siege, a narrative of one's life, etc. Narration is usually the same as narrative, but is sometimes used to describe the mode of relating events; as, his powers of narration are uncommonly great. Recital denotes a series of events drawn out into minute particulars, usually expressing something which peculiarly interests the feelings of the speaker; as, the recital of one's wrongs, disappointments, sufferings, etc.

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on account of

alt. 1 (context idiomatic English) because of, due to, owing to. 2 (context idiomatic English) For the sake of. 3 (context regional idiomatic English) Because. conj. (context US colloquial English) #Preposition the fact that: because, since. prep. 1 (context idiomatic English) because of, due to, owing to. 2 (context idiomatic English) For the sake of. 3 (context regional idiomatic English) Because.

Usage examples of "on account of".

Here, again, on account of the various significations of these means, so likewise it will be found that neither of them will be identical in its signification in all cases if the objects are different.

At the same time, it is not to be denied that such men have a certain peculiar aptitude for War, on account of their constant equanimity.

General must be aware of it that he may overcome it, where that is possible, and that he may not expect a degree of precision in results which is impossible on account of this very friction.

On the other hand, in a wider sense all activities which have their existence on account of War, therefore the whole creation of troops, that is levying them, arming, equipping, and exercising them, belong to the Art of War.

Although this principle rests on a sound foundation, on the truth that the combat is the only effectual means in War, still it is, just on account of its purely geometrical nature, nothing but another case of one-sided theory which can never gain ascendency in the real world.

It is only when it strikes at the root of obedience, when it treats with contempt the orders of superior authority, that it must be repressed as a dangerous evil, not on its own account but on account of the act of disobedience, for there is nothing in War which is of GREATER IMPORTANCE THAN OBEDIENCE.

Corps which, on account of the general superiority in numbers, have either been little or not at all engaged, whose presence alone has assisted in the result, are after the decision the same as they were before, and for new enterprises as efficient as if they had been entirely inactive.

In Strategy this is only faintly reflected, on account of the greater space and time.

It must not, therefore, be given up on account of secondary circumstances, but only and alone in the event of the forces appearing completely insufficient.

There was possibly a little more traffic than there would have been outside Des Moines, but that may have been on account of the rally.

It would be impossible for human infirmity to follow up the series of particular mutable things, both on account their multitude, surpassing all calculation, and on account of the infinitely diverse circumstances surrounding one and the same thing, any one of which may be the cause of its existence or non-existence.