WordNet
v. be fully aware of; realize fully; "Do you appreciate the full meaning of this letter?" [syn: appreciate]
Usage examples of "take account".
A constitution founded on the greatest possible human freedom, according to laws which enable the freedom of each individual to exist by the side of the freedom of others (without any regard to the highest possible human happiness, because that must necessarily follow by itself), is, to say the least, a necessary idea, on which not only the first plan of a constitution or a state, but all laws must be based, it being by no means necessary to take account from the beginning of existing impediments, which may owe their origin not so much to human nature itself as to the actual neglect of true ideas in legislation.
They were usually red instead of saffron and, to take account of the climate, woollen instead of cotton.
I tried very carefully to take account of any change in perception or mood, for I did not even know what to anticipate.