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Definition of Reconning
1. recon [v] - See also: recon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reconning
Literary usage of Reconning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1845)
"7. REMEMBERING—to perceive that one has perceived. is to remember. i. 389:—remembering,
or reconning of our former actions. iii. 14:—by the Latins called ..."
2. ... Characters and Passages from Note-books by Samuel Butler (1908)
"... our times is like a Dutch Reconning, not according to the value of the Treat,
but the Quality of the Person treated. The gay and Pleasant Seasons of the ..."
3. ... Characters and Passages from Note-books by Samuel Butler (1908)
"... our times is like a Dutch Reconning, not according to the value of the Treat,
but the Quality of the Person treated. The gay and Pleasant Seasons of the ..."
4. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction by Reuben Percy, John Timbs (1844)
"... at one man's handes; so that yt maye be kept secret, and I maye thereunto
trust, and that I maye make my reconning thereof ..."
5. The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Gresham: Comp. Chiefly from His by John William Burgon (1839)
"... by this reconning, the Queene hathe but a xi monthes for xii monthes; wyche
money shall stand her Majestic in, (if it take place) above xiiij per cento. ..."
6. Churchwardens' Accounts of S. Edmund & S. Thomas, Sarum, 1443-1702 with by Henry James Fowle Swayne (1896)
"... of olde reconning £1 Also in redy mony paid' to the new church men £24 3s
3^d [Signed] • Thomas ..."
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