reckon upとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

reckon up (third-person singular simple present reckons up, present participle reckoning up, simple past and past participle reckoned up)

1. To add up; count up; compute the amount of; tally; come to an accounting of.
   • 1735, [Richard Challoner], “Of [Martin] Luther’s Quarrel with Carlostadius [i.e., Andreas Karlstadt], and of the Divisions That Insued Thereupon amongst Protestants: […]”, in A Short History of the First Beginning and Progress of the Protestant Religion. […], London: […] H. Brabham, […], →OCLC, page 17:

     Of the Anabaptiſts, the ſame Author [Alexander Ross] Sect. 12. reckons up a great many different Sects, as the Mancerians, the Separatiſts, the Cathariſts, the Apoſtolicks, the Enthuſiaſts, the Silentes, the Adamites, the Liberi, the Hutites, the Melchioriſts, the Menoniſts, the Beucheldians, the Auguſtinians, the Denkians, and many others.

   • 1851, The Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, page 60:

     How many things are there which I ought to reckon up, that I have neglected; and how many others are there, which, if I did reckon them up, would overwhelm me with confusion. The grocer has given me a subject that I shall do well to pursue.

2. (informal, transitive) To harshly criticize.

   We reckoned him up pretty bad.

3. (informal, transitive) To perceive (reckon) (someone or something).

   I reckoned him up as a troublemaker at first glance.