Verb

(en verb)

To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.

* Bible, Job xxxvi. 19

Will he esteem thy riches?

* Tennyson

You talk kindlier: we esteem you for it.

To regard something as valuable; to prize.

To look upon something in a particular way.

Mary is an esteemed member of the community.

* Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 15

Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

* Bishop Gardiner

Thou shouldst (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence.

* Hawthorne

Famous men, whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural.

* 1843 , '', book 3, ch. V, ''The English

And greatly do I respect the solid character, — a blockhead, thou wilt say; yes, but a well- conditioned blockhead, and the best-conditioned, — who esteems all ‘Customs once solemnly acknowledged’ to be ultimate, divine, and the rule for a man to walk by, nothing doubting, not inquiring farther.

(obsolete) To judge; to estimate; to appraise

The Earth, which I esteem unable to reflect the rays of the Sun.

Verb

(calculat)

(mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.

(mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.

(intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.

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To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.

* (William Shakespeare)

A cunning man did calculate my birth.

To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.

* Archbishop Tillotson

[Religion] is calculated for our benefit.