Lexic.us

Definition of Take account

1. Verb. Be fully aware of; realize fully. "Do you appreciate the full meaning of this letter?"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Take Account

Literary usage of Take account

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall (1890)
"CH. rv. Whose influence gradually made itself felt. The growing tendency of economists to take account of the pliability of of human ..."

2. Pragmatism, a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking: Popular Lectures on by William James (1921)
"'Reality' is in general what truths have to take account of; ' and the first part of reality from this point of view is the flux of our sensations. ..."

3. Pragmatism, a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking: Popular Lectures on by William James (1907)
"Let me here recall a bit of my last lecture. 'Reality' is in general what truths have to take account of- ' and the first part of reality from this point of ..."

4. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... to receive the sums due from the collectors on the nunnery estates, and to take account of all the sales of the products of the lands of the convent. ..."

5. The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza by Benedictus de Spinoza, Robert Harvey Monro Elwes (1891)
"Emotions which are aroused or spring from reason, if we take account of time, are stronger than those, ..."

6. The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza by Benedictus de Spinoza, Robert Harvey Monro Elwes (1891)
"Vll. Emotions which are aroused or spring from reason, if we take account of time, are stronger than those, ..."

7. The Economic Review by Christian Social Union (Great Britain), Oxford University Branch (1891)
"If moral forces, in the sense of commendable or virtuous motives, are among those of which the Economist has to take account, it is only because forces ..."

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