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To account of

Account \Ac*count"\, v. i.

  1. To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

  2. To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.

  3. To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.

    To account of, to esteem; to prize; to value. Now used only in the passive. ``I account of her beauty.''
    --Shak.

    Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century.
    --Canon Robinson.