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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.
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   2. To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for;
      as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.
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   3. To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to
      explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.
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   {To account of}, to esteem; to prize; to value. Now used only
      in the passive. "I account of her beauty." --Shak.
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            Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the
            sixteenth century.                    --Canon
                                                  Robinson.
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