v. Obs. [ad. L. supputāre to cut off below, lop, prune, to count up, f. sup- = SUB- 2 + putāre to trim, prune, to clear up, settle, reckon. Cf. F. supputer (from 16th c.).] = SUPPUTATE. Hence † Supputed ppl. a. (fig.)
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), I. 37. Þe Romanes … ascribede theire yeres from the begynnenge of theire cite y-made. But … Cristen men suppute theire yeres from the Incarnacion of Criste. Ibid., V. 453. Men supputenge tymes of kynges.
1622. Drayton, Poly-olb., xxix. 363. Free from this supputed shame.
a. 1727. Newton, Chronol. Amended, Introd. (1728), 4. Others supputing the times by the Succession of the Kings of the Lacedæmonians, affirm that he was not a few years older than the first Olympiad.
