Meaning

(obsolete) Neat; spruce..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) Neat; spruce.
2. (obsolete) Account; reckoning; computation.
3. (obsolete) To compute; to count or consider.
4. Abbreviation of comptroller.
5. Abbreviation of compliment.

Example Sentences

who is not much more carefull of the grace of his head, than of his health? who maketh not more account to be compt, than to be honest?

A compt, accomplished prince.

And my wife will be jocund, feat, compt, neat, quaint, dainty, trim, tricked up, brisk, smirk, and smug, […]

Your servants ever have theirs,/Themselves and what is theirs, in compt, /To make their audit at your highness' pleasure, /Still to return your own.

it would be difficult for a youth of his age to follow the expositions of a practical lawyer, concerning actions of compt and reckoning, and of multiple-poindings, and adjudication and wadsets, proper and improper, and poindings of the ground and declarations of expiry of the legal.

For some were warded in the Pittie-vault, some set caution to remove from the town, after they had compted and reckoned for their tavernry with their mistresses; […]

So shall my ryghteousnes aunswere for me in time to come: for it shal come for my rewarde before thy face. And euery one that is not specked and partie amongst the goates, & blacke amongst the sheepe, let it be compted theft in me.

The gyftes of fortune compt the, as borowed ware Who so delyteth to prouen and assaye

Word Forms

• more compt
• most compt
• compts
• compting
• compted

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Use compt when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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