A calculation, reckoning, estimate.
1695. E. Bernard, Voy. fr. Aleppo, in Misc. Cur. (1708), III. 99. By a moderate Calculate there could not have been less at first than 560.
1700. P. Rycaut, Hist. Turks, III. 432/2. An Exact and Secret Calculate was made of the true Number of the Spahees.
a. 1734. North, Exam., III. ¶ 26. 602. Nor were these Brothers mistaken in their Calculate.
