amount (amount)

amunten, mount up to, come to, signify, OF. a mounter, a munter, amonter, amount to, amunt, amont, adv., uphill, upward, prop. prep. phr. a mont, toward or to a mountain or heap (cf. E. adown ), When the larke doth fyrst amounte on high. Peacham , Garden of Eloquence, p. 106. So up he rose, and thence amounted streight. Spenser, F. Q., I. ix. 54. 2. To reach or be equal (to) in number, quantity, or value; come (to) as a whole. Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, Cannot amount unto a hundred marks. Shak ., C. of E., i. 1. 3. To rise, reach, or extend, in effect, substance, influence, etc.; be equivalent or tantamount in force or significance: as, his answer amounted almost to a threat. The errors of young men are the ruin of busine ; but the errors of aged men en amount but to this, that more might Bacon. have been done or sooner. His love of mischief and of dark and crooked ways amounted almost to madne . Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. What amount eth this? 4. To cause to rise; raise or elevate. Here no Papists were arraigned to amount it to a Popish Fuller , Ch. Hist., ix. 110. (N. E. D.) IMG:content-0645.png:[ocr errors]