† calculingn.
Obsolete.
Calculating, reckoning.
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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > action of calculating or counting
accountc1300
numberingc1325
telling1340
calculingc1374
countingc1380
accountinga1387
summinga1387
calculation1393
count?a1400
computationc1425
reckoningc1425
numeration?a1475
supputation?a1475
compute1531
calcule1601
summing up1607
computing1629
subduction1656
enumerating1864
headcount1913
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 71 Whan þis Calcas knew by calkelyng.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 39 Þe calculynge of Denys..haþ lasse by xxii ȝere þan þe calculynge of Jerom.
1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum viii. xxvi. 131 Able to science and use of calkling and of accompts.
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