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Definition of Reckonings
1. reckoning [n] - See also: reckoning
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reckonings
Literary usage of Reckonings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"But that they mean well and will do well; but their reckonings are very good,
and show great faults, as I will insert here. They say the King hath had ..."
2. The Nature of Capital and Income by Irving Fisher (1906)
"XII, § 7) Mathematical Relations between the Rates of Discount for Different Time
reckonings The rates of discount for different time reckonings are related ..."
3. The Political State of the British Empire: Containing a General View of the by John Adolphus (1818)
"For Highland and other regiments wearing peculiar clothing, peculiar regulations
are made. OFF reckonings. Out of the off reckonings (6d. per day from each ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on the Forms of Process: Containing the New Regulations by Thomas Beveridge, Scotland Jury Court (1826)
"Of counts and reckonings. Of old, these processes were more numerous than they
now are, and the proceedings in them were often very complicated and ..."
5. An Appeal to Pharaoh: The Negro Problem, and Its Radical Solution by Carlyle McKinley, Gustavus M. Pinckney (1907)
"reckonings OF NUMBERS. "Ix is desirable enough to get rid of the Negro; we can
all agree to that proposition," will it be said? "But it is impracticable. ..."
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