also accompting. [f. ACCOUNT v. + -ING2.]
† 1. Counting, reckoning. Obs.
1551. Recorde, Pathw. Knowl., II. 42. That is to saye D. E. K. H, which was at no tyme accompting as percell of any one of them.
a. 1628. F. Greville, Life of Sidney (1652), 28. The ill-accompting hand of war.
2. That keeps accounts. arch.
1810. Crabbe, Borough, xxi. 6. A kind merchant hired his useful pen, And made him happiest of accompting men.
