Obs. Also 5 -pote. [a. OF. compot ad. late L. computus, compotus calculation: cf. COMPOST2, COMPUTUS.] Computation, reckoning, esp. of the Calendar.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), V. 323. Þat ȝere þe abbot Dionisius Exiguus bygan to make his compote at Rome. He was þe firste … þat took hede of þe defautes of þat compot. Ibid., VI. 187. Þe compot [1432–50 compte] of Ester [Easter]. Ibid. (1398), Barth. De P. R., IX. iii. (Tollem. MS.). These houres put to gedir in þe fourþe ȝere makeþ a day þat is clepid bisextilis, as Beda sayeþ: but hereof in þe compot [Lat. in computo; 1535 compost]. Ibid., XIX. cxvi. (1495), 919. Doo away compot and acountes.
