computator (komputator)

[= Pg. com putador = It. com put a tore, com put are, pp. com put at us, compute: see com pute.] A computer; a calculator. Sterne. [Rare.] compute (kom-put'), v.; pret. and pp. computed, ppr. computing. [F. computer = Sp. Pg.com putar = It. com put are, also pur us, pure: see pute, pure. From L.com put are, through OF. and ME., comes E. count1, a doublet of compute: compute: see count1.] I. trans. To determine by calculation; count; reckon; calculate: as, to compute the distance of the moon from the earth. Two days, as we compute the days of heaven. I could demonstrate every pore Where memory lays up all her store; And to an inch compute the station Twixt judgment and imagination. computor, ". See computer. after F. Comtiste.] I. n. A disciple of Comte; a positivist. Writers whose philosophy had its legitimate parent in Hume, or in themselves, were labelled Comtists or "Positivists" by public writers, even in spite of vehement protests to the contrary. Huxley, Lay Sermons, p. 150. II. a . Same as Comtian .