The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reckoning \Reck"on*ing\, n.
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The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically:
An account of time.
--Sandys.-
Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc.
Even reckoning makes lasting friends, and the way to make reckonings even is to make them often.
--South.He quitted London, never to return till the day of a terrible and memorable reckoning had arrived.
--Macaulay.
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The charge or account made by a host at an inn.
A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning.
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Esteem; account; estimation.
You make no further reckoning of it [beauty] than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed.
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(Navigation)
The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, -- in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); -- also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation.
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The position of a ship as determined by calculation.
To be out of her reckoning, to be at a distance from the place indicated by the reckoning; -- said of a ship.
day of reckoning the day or time when one must pay one's debts, fulfill one's obligations, or be punished for one's transgressions.