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▪ I. compute, n. Now rare.|kəmˈpjuːt|
[In sense 1, a. F. comput computus; in others f. the verb.]
†1. (ˈcompute) = computus 2. Obs.
1413Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle v. i. (1859) 73 He that made this compute, and the kalendre. 1533More Answ. Poysoned Bk. iv. viii. The common verse of the compute manuell.
2. Reckoning, calculation, computation. Now chiefly in phr. beyond compute.
1588J. Harvey Disc. Probleme 19 According to the historical Computes euen of sundry these fauorites. 1656H. More Antid. Ath. ii. ii. (1712) 45 Any new pressure..cannot come into compute in this case. 1705Bp. Wilson in Keble Life iv. (1863) 146 The expenses I have been at, which..by a modest compute comes to 100l. ready moneys. 1776Johnson Lett. (1788) I. 314 With encrease of delight past compute, to use the phrase of Cumberland. 1857R. G. Latham Prichard's East. Orig. Celtic N. 372 My obligations to his learning..are beyond compute.
†3. Estimation, judgement, reckoning. Obs.
1661C. L. Origen's Opin. in Phenix (1721) I. 48 In the Compute and Judgement of that all-righteous Mind. 1682Glanvill Sadducismus (ed. 2) Ded., If we make our compute like men, and do not suffer ourselves to be abused by the flatteries of sense.
▪ II. compute, v.|kəmˈpjuːt|
[a. F. compute-r (16th c. in Littré), ad. L. computā-re to reckon, sum up, f. com- together + putāre to clear up, settle, reckon.]
1. trans. To estimate or determine by arithmetical or mathematical reckoning; to calculate, reckon, count.
1631Gouge God's Arrows iii. §71. 315 They compute their numbers, as the Græcians do, by letters. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 685 Two dayes, as we compute the dayes of Heav'n. 1672P. Henry Diary & Lett. (1882) 254 His loss is generally computed to near 400 lb. 1776Gibbon Decline & F. I. xvii. 434 Its most ordinary breadth may be computed at about one mile and a half. 1831Brewster Optics vi. 58 The radii of curvature for these lenses, as computed by Mr. Herschel. 1833H. Coleridge North. Worthies Introd. Ess. (1852) 17 To compute the comparative duration of life in different periods.
†b. Of numbers: To make up, count. Obs.—1
1667Milton P.L. iii. 580 As they move Thir starry dance in numbers that compute Days, months, and years.
†c. To include in reckoning, count in. Obs.—1
1817C. Grant in Parl. Deb. 1807 The right hon. gentleman's mistake arose in this manner:—he had computed the same sum twice.
d. In wider sense: To estimate, ‘reckon’, take account of, take into consideration.
1647Crashaw Poems 139 Ripe as those rich composures, time computes Blossoms, but our blest taste confesses fruits. 1654Earl of Orrery Parthenissa (1676) 558 As he computed the business, he apprehended..either Syllaces recovery, or Zenophon's increasing Army, would, etc. 1786Burns Addr. Unco Guid viii, What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
2. With dependent clause or inf. complement.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. xii, Every man is many moneths elder then he computeth. 1666Pepys Diary 15 Sept., He hath computed that the rents of the houses..comes to 600,000l. per annum. 1700Dryden Fables, Ceyx & Alcyone 233 Mean time Alcyone..Computes how many nights he had been gone. 1705Addison Italy, Rome (1767) 176 Some have computed it about fourteen or fifteen feet. 1724Swift Drapier's Lett. ii, The souls in this kingdom are computed to be 1,500,000. 1880Geikie Phys. Geog. iv. xix. 166 The total area of dry land..has been computed to amount to fifty-two millions of square miles.
3. intr. To make computation; to reckon.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 161 As we compute from our Saviours Nativitie. 1727Swift Gulliver ii. iv. 129 And computing by the scale, measured it pretty exactly. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 368 In silver payments..it was common to compute by weight.
†b. To count upon, reckon on, or to do. Obs.
1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1709) 61 There must be..no computing upon Favours. 1701― tr. Gataker's Prelim. Disc. 16 If Men would think a little before-hand, and compute upon the Consequences of a Debauch. 1772Birmingham Counterfeit I. 253 Travelling all night, we computed to arrive there by sun-rise.
4. to compute (any one) out of (a thing): to do out of by computation.
1796Burke Regic. Peace ii. Wks. VIII. 219 The calculators compute them out of their senses.
Hence comˈputed ppl. a.
1741–3Wesley Jrnl. 80 At Horseley upon Tyne, eight (computed) miles from Newcastle. 1849M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sc. xxxvii. 418 How far the computed ellipse agrees with the curve.
Add: computed ppl. a.: esp. in computed tomography (cf. CT s.v. C III. 3), = computed axial tomography s.v. cat n.5
1974Radiology CXIII. 351/1 Recently developed equipment for performing computer-analyzed axial tomography (computed tomography) has been employed at the Cleveland Clinic in the detection of orbital lesions. 1991Lancet 9 Mar. 605/2 The ward doctor thought subarachnoid haemorrhage more likely than meningitis and he arranged for a computed tomography (CT) scan. |