Verb

(en verb)

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

* ...then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain... --Lev. 27:18, King James Version .

I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. .

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.

* He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke 23:37, King James Version

* For him I reckon not in high estate. .

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

* ...faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Romans 4:9, King James Version.

* Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. .

To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause;

* For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. --Romans 8:18, King James Version.

* Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin... --Romans 6:11, King James Version

* 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.

* Parfay," sayst thou, sometime he reckon shall." .

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To think about seriously.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

Thenceforth to speculations high or deep / I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Considered all things visible.

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(label) To think of doing.

(label) To assign some quality to.

* (1800-1859)

Considered as plays, his works are absurd.

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(label) To look at attentively.

* Bible, (w) xxxi. 16

She considereth a field, and buyeth it.

(label) To take up as an example.

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To debate or dispose of a motion.

To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Consider , sir, the chance of war: the day / Was yours by accident.

* (1628–1699)

England could grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad.