Crossword clues for reckoned
reckoned
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reckon \Reck"on\ (r[e^]k"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reckoned (r[e^]k"'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Reckoning.] [OE. rekenen, AS. gerecenian to explain; akin to D. rekenen to reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rehhan[=o]n (cf. Goth. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. See Reck, v. t.]
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To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
The priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain.
--Lev. xxvii. 18.I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.
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To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
He was reckoned among the transgressors.
--Luke xxii. 37.For him I reckon not in high estate.
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To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
--Rom. iv. 9.Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.
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To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again.
Syn: To number; enumerate; compute; calculate; estimate; value; esteem; account; repute. See Calculate, Guess.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: reckon)
Usage examples of "reckoned".
So I reckoned I wouldn't bother no more about it, but after this always do whichever come handiest at the time.
I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there, and she said not by a considerable sight.
I thought it all out, and reckoned I would belong to the widow's if he wanted me, though I couldn't make out how he was a-going to be any better off then than what he was before, seeing I was so ignorant, and so kind of low-down and ornery.
He said he reckoned a body could reform the old man with a shotgun, maybe, but he didn't know no other way.
I didn't want to go to school much before, but I reckoned I'd go now to spite pap.
His lawyer said he reckoned he would win his lawsuit and get the money if they ever got started on the trial.
I thought it all over, and I reckoned I would walk off with the gun and some lines, and take to the woods when I run away.
I judged I would saw out and leave that night if pap got drunk enough, and I reckoned he would.
He said it was a sign when young chickens flew that way, and so he reckoned it was the same way when young birds done it.
The way things was scattered about we reckoned the people left in a hurry, and warn't fixed so as to carry off most of their stuff.
Jim said he reckoned the people in that house stole the coat, because if they'd a knowed the money was there they wouldn't a left it.
Well, I was getting to feel that way myself, though I've always reckoned that looking at the new moon over your left shoulder is one of the carelessest and foolishest things a body can do.
I said I reckoned I would slip over the river and find out what was going on.
She said that was first-rate, and she reckoned I would hive the next one.
Jim said he reckoned the widow was partly right and pap was partly right.