accountableadj.

Brit.

/əˈkaʊntəbl/, U.S.

/əˈkaʊn(t)əbəl/

Forms:

α. Middle English 1600s acountable, Middle English– accountable.

β. Middle English–1600s accomptable, 1600s accomptible.

Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Probably partly formed within English, by derivation. Probably partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: account v., -able suffix; French accountable.

Etymology: Probably partly < account v. + -able suffix, and partly < Anglo-Norman accountable, accomptable, acomptable subject to accounting, responsible, answerable (to) (all mid 14th cent. or earlier), involved in accounting, responsible for accounting (early 15th cent. or earlier) < aconter , acompter account v. + -able -able suffix. Compare countable adj.

1. Chiefly of persons (in later use also organizations, etc.): liable to be called to account or to answer for responsibilities and conduct; required or expected to justify one's actions, decisions, etc.; answerable, responsible.

a. In predicative use. With prepositional complement: to a person, for (also †of) a thing.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > duty or obligation > responsibility > [adjective] > responsible, answerable, or liable

accountablec1400

accountant1429

answerable1446

responsalc1460

countable1495

liable1542

chargeable1546

responsable1565

correspondent1612

countant1638

responsible1640

responsive1642

amenablea1781

c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xiv. l. 67 Men þat ben ryche Aren a-countable to crist.

1449 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Feb. 1449 §16. m. 4 The same tresorer and vitalere, to be accomptable therof to you in your eschequer.

1483 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1483 §13. m. 13 It is enacted..that..every shirref and escheatour..severelly accompte and be accomptable before such persones..of every thyng graunted.

a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 295 (MED) The wardens of this Cite..which be their othes ben accomptable off the issuez and profites off their seid offices.

?1549 J. Hooper Declar. 10 Commandm. x. 167 They shalbe culpable and accomptable for as many faultes, as is donne by his familie throwghe his absence.

1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. To Rdr. sig. A2 I ought to bee accountable to the world of my priuate meaning.

1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 163 They stand accountable to him from whom they have receiued it; and woe vnto them, if the accounts they bring in, be not..answerable to the receipts.

1688 King's Decl. 14/2 I am nevertheless Accomptable for all Things that I openly and voluntarily..do or say.

1713 R. Steele Englishman No. i. 9 I am accountable to no Man, but the greatest Man in England is accountable to me.

1747 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 414/1 If the deputies..fail in their duty, they are only accountable to their constituents.

1792 York Herald 30 June The Proprietors of the above Coach will not be accountable for any box, parcel..or truss above the value of five pounds.

1812 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) IX. 153 The officer commanding the company must be accountable to the volunteer for the residue of the sum.

1873 W. Collins New Magdalene I. xiv. 222 She is not accountable for her actions.

1901 Times 4 July 7/1 The administrator had in his hands a sum of money for which he was accountable.

1972 R. J. Havighurst in A. C. Ornstein Accountability for Teachers (1973) ii. 17 The teacher was accountable for teaching , and the pupil was accountable for learning.

2006 A. Steffen et al. Worldchanging (2008) 469/2 When democratic states are in good political health, they..hold those leaders accountable for their actions.

b. Without prepositional complement.Not recorded in attributive use until the 17th cent.

ΚΠ

1442 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1442 §29. m. 4 The seid tresorer of youre housholde..to be accomptable in youre eschequer.

1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 378 (MED) Also, that euery officer accomptable make his rekenynge afore auditors assigned by the Baillies and comyns.

1562 Certayn Serm. preached in Lincs. in H. Latimer 27 Serm. ii. f. 128 For the earthe is the Lordes, and all that is therein: and when we haue muche, then we are accountable.

1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 320 Their Committees shall call before them all accountable Officers.

1642 Declar. Lords & Comm. 9 Jan. 4 The Lord Lieutenant and Committee shall be accomptable.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. vi. 108 That he was in Fact an accountable Child.

1788 T. Reid Ess. Active Powers Man i. v. 523 It is of the highest importance to us, as moral and accountable creatures.

1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. viii. 307 God has chosen also to sustain the character of a governor of accountable agents.

1855 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Nov. 622 The choice in the Divine mind..lay..between such a system as we actually have..and the non-creation of moral, accountable, intelligent beings altogether.

1928 Sat. Evening Post 10 Mar. 185/2 Hedge clauses..signify that if the representations turn out to be wrong the banker shall not be held accountable.

2002 Big Issue 17 June 23 Whistle-blowing..should be about making people in charge accountable—not a cheap and easy way for the government to detect fraud.

†2. Able to be reckoned or computed; that may be used in calculation. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [adjective] > numerable or reckonable

numbrablea1382

numberablea1500

computativea1538

measurable1565

numerable1570

countable1581

accountable1589

computable1610

numerous1638

reckonable1657

summable1718

calculable1742

enumerable1889

scorable1964

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. v. 63 There is an accomptable number which we call arithmeticall (arithmos) as one, two, three.

a. Able to be accounted for or explained; explicable. Cf. unaccountable adj. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [adjective] > capable of explanation

explicable1545

explainable1610

illustrable1658

accountable1665

solvablea1845

illustratable1850

expoundable1887

1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 34 in Scepsis Scientifica The proposed Instances are far more accountable then this before us.

1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. 20 A way of making the deluge fairly intelligible, and accountable without the creation of new waters.

1834 H. Martineau Moral Many Fables iii. 124 The progress of freedom has been continuous and accountable.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxvi. 59 By George! it was a very accountable obstinacy.

1914 V. de Cleyre in Mother Earth Mar. 15 It arose without an accountable reason like a great fungus out of the scum of men.

2000 Philos. Sci. 67 (Suppl.) S531 It seems plausible to conclude that if causation is physicalistically accountable in terms of conservation laws, then the temporal symmetry of the latter extends to the former.

b. With for.

ΚΠ

1745 J. Wesley Answer to Rev. Church 45 Every thing, which is not strictly accountable for, by the Ordinary Course of Natural Causes.

1846 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 8 245 Beds of gravel and sand..which occur in such situations as not to be accountable for by the agency of existing transporting powers.

1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 81 The phraseology..is accountable for only by the identity, under one aspect, of a property and that which is propertied.

1947 Jrnl. Ecol. 35 164 Certain of the species..exhibit peculiarities of distribution not accountable for in terms of unsuitability ofpH range.

1974 Florida FL Reporter 12 78/3 Grammatical differences (accountable for by perhaps some late-ordered, over-generalised rules or by perhaps decreolizing rules).

2005 Amer. Music 23 175 The Nova Scotia text..is very similar, but for a few differences probably accountable for by memory lapses.

†4. Of conduct: that is chargeable or attributable to another. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > attribution or assignment of cause > [adjective] > attributable or imputable

longc1300

referrible1576

referable1583

imputable1635

ascriptive1649

attributary1650

attributable1661

due to1669

ascribable1671

assignable1673

accountable1681

creditable1862

1681 J. Evelyn Let. 6 Dec. in S. Pepys Private Corr. (1926) I. 15 That I did not proceede with the rest is accountable to his successor.

†5. That may be counted or reckoned on. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > [adjective]

soothfastc825

truefastOE

i-treowec1000

unfakenOE

trueOE

sickerc1100

trigc1175

strustya1250

steel to the (very) backa1300

true as steela1300

certainc1325

well-provedc1325

surec1330

traistc1330

tristc1330

trustya1350

faithfula1382

veryc1385

sada1387

discreet1387

trust1389

trothfulc1390

tristya1400

proveda1425

good-heartedc1425

well-trusted?a1439

tristfulc1440

authorizablea1475

faithworthy?1526

tentik1534

fidele1539

truthfulc1550

suresby1553

responsible1558

trestc1560

reliable1569

cocksurea1575

sound1581

trustful1582

truepenny1589

true (also good, sure) as touch1590

probable1596

confident1605

trustable1606

axiopistical1611

loyala1616

reposeful1627

confiding1645

fiducial1647

laudable1664

safe1667

accountable1683

serious1693

sponsible1721

dependable1730

unfailing1798

truthya1802

trustworthy1829

all right1841

stand-up1841

falsehood-free1850

right1856

proven1872

bankable1891

secure1954

1683 Mem. Sir J. Melvil 143 I would do him accomptible pleasure and good service.

1689 J. Collier Moral Ess. conc. Pride 38 Those who have not, must be Curates..or else lay by the use of their Priesthood, which I am afraid is not very accountable.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	accountable
释义	accountableadj. Brit. /əˈkaʊntəbl/, U.S. /əˈkaʊn(t)əbəl/ Forms: α. Middle English 1600s acountable, Middle English– accountable. β. Middle English–1600s accomptable, 1600s accomptible. Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Probably partly formed within English, by derivation. Probably partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: account v., -able suffix; French accountable. Etymology: Probably partly < account v. + -able suffix, and partly < Anglo-Norman accountable, accomptable, acomptable subject to accounting, responsible, answerable (to) (all mid 14th cent. or earlier), involved in accounting, responsible for accounting (early 15th cent. or earlier) < aconter , acompter account v. + -able -able suffix. Compare countable adj. 1. Chiefly of persons (in later use also organizations, etc.): liable to be called to account or to answer for responsibilities and conduct; required or expected to justify one's actions, decisions, etc.; answerable, responsible. a. In predicative use. With prepositional complement: to a person, for (also †of) a thing. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > responsibility > [adjective] > responsible, answerable, or liable accountablec1400 accountant1429 answerable1446 responsalc1460 countable1495 liable1542 chargeable1546 responsable1565 correspondent1612 countant1638 responsible1640 responsive1642 amenablea1781 c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xiv. l. 67 Men þat ben ryche Aren a-countable to crist. 1449 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Feb. 1449 §16. m. 4 The same tresorer and vitalere, to be accomptable therof to you in your eschequer. 1483 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1483 §13. m. 13 It is enacted..that..every shirref and escheatour..severelly accompte and be accomptable before such persones..of every thyng graunted. a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 295 (MED) The wardens of this Cite..which be their othes ben accomptable off the issuez and profites off their seid offices. ?1549 J. Hooper Declar. 10 Commandm. x. 167 They shalbe culpable and accomptable for as many faultes, as is donne by his familie throwghe his absence. 1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. To Rdr. sig. A2 I ought to bee accountable to the world of my priuate meaning. 1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 163 They stand accountable to him from whom they have receiued it; and woe vnto them, if the accounts they bring in, be not..answerable to the receipts. 1688 King's Decl. 14/2 I am nevertheless Accomptable for all Things that I openly and voluntarily..do or say. 1713 R. Steele Englishman No. i. 9 I am accountable to no Man, but the greatest Man in England is accountable to me. 1747 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 414/1 If the deputies..fail in their duty, they are only accountable to their constituents. 1792 York Herald 30 June The Proprietors of the above Coach will not be accountable for any box, parcel..or truss above the value of five pounds. 1812 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) IX. 153 The officer commanding the company must be accountable to the volunteer for the residue of the sum. 1873 W. Collins New Magdalene I. xiv. 222 She is not accountable for her actions. 1901 Times 4 July 7/1 The administrator had in his hands a sum of money for which he was accountable. 1972 R. J. Havighurst in A. C. Ornstein Accountability for Teachers (1973) ii. 17 The teacher was accountable for teaching , and the pupil was accountable for learning. 2006 A. Steffen et al. Worldchanging (2008) 469/2 When democratic states are in good political health, they..hold those leaders accountable for their actions. b. Without prepositional complement.Not recorded in attributive use until the 17th cent. ΚΠ 1442 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1442 §29. m. 4 The seid tresorer of youre housholde..to be accomptable in youre eschequer. 1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 378 (MED) Also, that euery officer accomptable make his rekenynge afore auditors assigned by the Baillies and comyns. 1562 Certayn Serm. preached in Lincs. in H. Latimer 27 Serm. ii. f. 128 For the earthe is the Lordes, and all that is therein: and when we haue muche, then we are accountable. 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 320 Their Committees shall call before them all accountable Officers. 1642 Declar. Lords & Comm. 9 Jan. 4 The Lord Lieutenant and Committee shall be accomptable. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. vi. 108 That he was in Fact an accountable Child. 1788 T. Reid Ess. Active Powers Man i. v. 523 It is of the highest importance to us, as moral and accountable creatures. 1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. viii. 307 God has chosen also to sustain the character of a governor of accountable agents. 1855 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Nov. 622 The choice in the Divine mind..lay..between such a system as we actually have..and the non-creation of moral, accountable, intelligent beings altogether. 1928 Sat. Evening Post 10 Mar. 185/2 Hedge clauses..signify that if the representations turn out to be wrong the banker shall not be held accountable. 2002 Big Issue 17 June 23 Whistle-blowing..should be about making people in charge accountable—not a cheap and easy way for the government to detect fraud. †2. Able to be reckoned or computed; that may be used in calculation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [adjective] > numerable or reckonable numbrablea1382 numberablea1500 computativea1538 measurable1565 numerable1570 countable1581 accountable1589 computable1610 numerous1638 reckonable1657 summable1718 calculable1742 enumerable1889 scorable1964 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. v. 63 There is an accomptable number which we call arithmeticall (arithmos) as one, two, three. 3. a. Able to be accounted for or explained; explicable. Cf. unaccountable adj. 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [adjective] > capable of explanation explicable1545 explainable1610 illustrable1658 accountable1665 solvablea1845 illustratable1850 expoundable1887 1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 34 in Scepsis Scientifica The proposed Instances are far more accountable then this before us. 1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. 20 A way of making the deluge fairly intelligible, and accountable without the creation of new waters. 1834 H. Martineau Moral Many Fables iii. 124 The progress of freedom has been continuous and accountable. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxvi. 59 By George! it was a very accountable obstinacy. 1914 V. de Cleyre in Mother Earth Mar. 15 It arose without an accountable reason like a great fungus out of the scum of men. 2000 Philos. Sci. 67 (Suppl.) S531 It seems plausible to conclude that if causation is physicalistically accountable in terms of conservation laws, then the temporal symmetry of the latter extends to the former. b. With for. ΚΠ 1745 J. Wesley Answer to Rev. Church 45 Every thing, which is not strictly accountable for, by the Ordinary Course of Natural Causes. 1846 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 8 245 Beds of gravel and sand..which occur in such situations as not to be accountable for by the agency of existing transporting powers. 1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 81 The phraseology..is accountable for only by the identity, under one aspect, of a property and that which is propertied. 1947 Jrnl. Ecol. 35 164 Certain of the species..exhibit peculiarities of distribution not accountable for in terms of unsuitability ofpH range. 1974 Florida FL Reporter 12 78/3 Grammatical differences (accountable for by perhaps some late-ordered, over-generalised rules or by perhaps decreolizing rules). 2005 Amer. Music 23 175 The Nova Scotia text..is very similar, but for a few differences probably accountable for by memory lapses. †4. Of conduct: that is chargeable or attributable to another. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > attribution or assignment of cause > [adjective] > attributable or imputable longc1300 referrible1576 referable1583 imputable1635 ascriptive1649 attributary1650 attributable1661 due to1669 ascribable1671 assignable1673 accountable1681 creditable1862 1681 J. Evelyn Let. 6 Dec. in S. Pepys Private Corr. (1926) I. 15 That I did not proceede with the rest is accountable to his successor. †5. That may be counted or reckoned on. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > [adjective] soothfastc825 truefastOE i-treowec1000 unfakenOE trueOE sickerc1100 trigc1175 strustya1250 steel to the (very) backa1300 true as steela1300 certainc1325 well-provedc1325 surec1330 traistc1330 tristc1330 trustya1350 faithfula1382 veryc1385 sada1387 discreet1387 trust1389 trothfulc1390 tristya1400 proveda1425 good-heartedc1425 well-trusted?a1439 tristfulc1440 authorizablea1475 faithworthy?1526 tentik1534 fidele1539 truthfulc1550 suresby1553 responsible1558 trestc1560 reliable1569 cocksurea1575 sound1581 trustful1582 truepenny1589 true (also good, sure) as touch1590 probable1596 confident1605 trustable1606 axiopistical1611 loyala1616 reposeful1627 confiding1645 fiducial1647 laudable1664 safe1667 accountable1683 serious1693 sponsible1721 dependable1730 unfailing1798 truthya1802 trustworthy1829 all right1841 stand-up1841 falsehood-free1850 right1856 proven1872 bankable1891 secure1954 1683 Mem. Sir J. Melvil 143 I would do him accomptible pleasure and good service. 1689 J. Collier Moral Ess. conc. Pride 38 Those who have not, must be Curates..or else lay by the use of their Priesthood, which I am afraid is not very accountable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1400
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