Definition of Reckon

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Reckon

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.

To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.

To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again.

To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.

To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

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Reckon Quotations

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
Alfred Adler

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
Roger Bacon

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
Aeschylus

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.
Jacques Derrida

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
Alfred de Vigny

At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.
Peter Garrett

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.
Sam Shepard

I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.
Dashiell Hammett

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.
Mark E. Smith

Reckon Translations

reckon in Italian is fare i conti
reckon in Latin is duco
reckon in Spanish is darse cuenta, numerar

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