Calculate

This word means to ascertain by computation, to reckon, to estimate; and, say some of the purists, it never means anything else when properly used. If this is true , we can not say a thing is calculated to do harm, but must, if we are ambitious to have our English irreproachable, choose some other form of expre ion, or at least some other word, likely or apt , for example. Cobbett, however, says, "That, to Her, whose great example is so well calculated to inspire," etc.; and, "The first two of the three sentences are well enough calculated for ushering," etc. Calculate is sometimes vulgarly used for intend , purpose , expect ; as, "He calculates to get off to-morrow."