or ACCOMPT, in a general sense, a computation or reckoning of any thing 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, a sovereign court of great antiquity, which took cognizance of and registered the accounts of the King's revenue; 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.