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† suppuˈtation Obs.
[ad. L. supputātio, -ōnem, n. of action f. supputāre to suppute. Cf. F. supputation (from 16th c.).]
1. The action (or an act) of calculating or computing; a method or system of reckoning; calculation, computation, reckoning.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 27 Florentius, monke of Wurcestre, whom y folowe specially with Marianus Scotte in the supputacion of yeres. 1545Joye Exp. Dan. B j b, A brife supputation of the ages and yeres of the world. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 65 Euery leaque conteyneth foure myles, after theyr supputations. 1560Bible (Geneva) Esther Argt. 218 b, The supputation of yeres, wherein the Ebrewes, and the Grecians do varie. 1650Twysden in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) I. 67 For the ready supputation of the places of the planets. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. Introd. (1674) 17/2 Chronologies..are only bare supputations of times, with some brief touch upon the Actions therein hapning. 1696Aubrey Misc. 24 The skill of dealing with difficult supputations of Numbers not then discoverable. 1698Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 7 The Julian Period..is a supputation of 7980 years. Invented by Julius Scaliger. 1751Act 24 Geo. II, c. 23 §1 That..the said Supputation, according to which the Year of our Lord beginneth on the twenty-fifth Day of March, shall not be made use of from and after the last Day of December, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-one. 1825A. Clarke Comm. O.T., Ps. lxxxi. 3 They..sent persons to the top of some hill..about the time which, according to their supputations, the new moon should appear.
b. transf. Estimation, reckoning.
1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §18 In a wise supputation all things begin and end in the Almighty. 1654Trapp Comm. Job xxxviii. 18 They have their supputations and conjectures. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 224 He so disturbed and confounded all his supputations, that [etc.].
2. (See quot.) rare—0.
1656Blount Glossogr., Supputation.., a pruyning or cutting Trees. |