Adjective
Neat; spruce.
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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.
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And my wife will be jocund, feat, compt, neat, quaint, dainty, trim, tricked up, brisk, smirk, and smug, […]
Noun
Account; reckoning; computation.
Usage- Obsolete
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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.
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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.
Verb
To compute; to count or consider.
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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