comptEtymologyFrom Latin comptus, past participle of comere (“to care for, comb, arrange, adorn”).adjNeat; spruce.“who is not much more carefull of the grace of his head, than of his health? who maketh not more account to be compt, than to be honest?”nounAccount; reckoning; computation.“Your servants ever have theirs,/Themselves and what is theirs, in compt, /To make their audit at your highness' pleasure, /Still to return your own.”verbTo compute; to count or consider.“For some were warded in the Pittie-vault, some set caution to remove from the town, after they had compted and reckoned for their tavernry with their mistresses; […]”