cast accounts

English

Verb

cast accounts (third-person singular simple present casts accounts, present participle casting accounts, simple past and past participle cast accounts)

1. (obsolete, accounting) To perform basic bookkeeping.
2. (obsolete) To be numerate; to be capable of arithmetic.

Usage notes

• One who casts accounts may be a person equipped with that accomplishment but not using it, just as one who reads is not necessarily reading, nor inclined to it, but literate.