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t. & i. [Fr. compter.] IMG:content-0094.png:[blocks in formation] of. To account for: (1) To render an account "At once accounting for his deep arrears." Dryden: Juvenal's Satires, xiii. (2) To afford an explanation of, to tell the cause of, we find evidences of a small change, which theory accounts for."-Herschel: Astronomy, 5th ed., § 306. a feature in the vegetation of this island [the northern island of New Zealand) may perhaps be accounted for by the land having been aboriginally covered with forest-trees."- Darwin : Voyage round the World, ch. xviii., p. 424. * To account of (compound trans. verb): Το value, to prize, to estimate highly. none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.-2 Chron. ix. 20.