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▪ I. † compot Obs. Also 5 -pote. [a. OF. compot ad. late L. computus, compotus calculation: cf. compost2, computus.] Computation, reckoning, esp. of the calendar.
1387Trevisa 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]. 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. ▪ II. compot var. of compote. |