or ACCOMPT, in a general sense, a computation or reckoning of anything by numbers.—Collectively, it is used to express the books which merchants, traders, bankers, &c., use for recording their transactions in business. See Book-keeping.

Chamber of Accounts, in the French polity, is a sovereign court of great antiquity, which takes cognizance of and registers the accounts of the king's revenue. It is nearly the same with the English Court of Exchequer.

ACCOUNT is taken sometimes, in a particular sense, for the computation of time: thus we say, The Julian Account, the Gregorian Account, &c., in which sense it is equivalent to style.