Now rare. [In sense 1, a. F. comput COMPUTUS; in others f. the verb.]
† 1. (co·mpute) = COMPUTUS 2. Obs.
1413. Lydg., Pilgr. Sowle, V. i. (1859), 73. He that made this compute, and the kalendre.
1533. More, Answ. Poysoned Bk., IV. viii. The common verse of the compute manuell.
2. Reckoning, calculation, computation. Now chiefly in phr. beyond compute.
1588. J. Harvey, Disc. Probleme, 19. According to the historical Computes euen of sundry these fauorites.
1656. H. More, Antid. Ath., II. ii. (1712), 45. Any new pressure … cannot come into compute in this case.
1705. Bp. Wilson, in Keble, Life, iv. (1863), 146. The expenses I have been at, which … by a modest compute comes to 100l. ready moneys.
1776. Johnson, Lett. (1788), I. 314. With encrease of delight past compute, to use the phrase of Cumberland.
1857. R. G. Latham, Prichard’s East. Orig. Celtic N., 372. My obligations to his learning … are beyond compute.
† 3. Estimation, judgment, reckoning. Obs.
1661. C. L., Origen’s Opin., in Phenix (1721), I. 48. In the Compute and Judgment of that all-righteous Mind.
1682. Glanvill, Sadducismus (ed. 2), Ded. If we make our compute like men, and do not suffer ourselves to be abused by the flatteries of sense.
