reckon

noun

1. Alternative form of rackan (“chain”).

verb

Etymology: From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian (“to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”) and ġerecenian (“to explain, recount, relate”); both from Proto-West Germanic *rekanōn (“to count, explain”), from Proto-West Germanic *rekan (“swift, ready, prompt”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to make straight or right”). Cognate with Scots rekkin (“to enumerate, mention, narrate, rehearse, count, calculate, compute”), Saterland Frisian reekenje (“to calculate, figure, reckon”), West Frisian rekkenje (“to account, tally, calculate, figure”), Dutch rekenen (“to count, calculate, reckon, charge”), German Low German reken (“to reckon”), German rechnen (“to count, reckon, calculate”), Danish regne (“to calculate”), Swedish räkna (“to count, calculate, reckon”), Norwegian Nynorsk rekna (“to calculate”), Icelandic reikna (“to calculate”), Latin rectus (“straight, right”). See also reck, reach.

1. 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”

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

2. 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”

   “For him I reckon not in high estate Whom long descent of birth, Or the sphere of fortune, raises”

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

   “[…] faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.”

   “Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.”

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

   “I reckon he won't try that again.”

   “I’ve just heard from the repairman: it's going to cost £1000. I'd reckoned it’d be £500 at most.”

5. To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e. to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host

   “There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still; There’s a land—oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back—and I will.”

6. To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
7. To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.