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Cur·rent a.
1. Running or moving rapidly. [Archaic]
Like the current fire, that renneth
Upon a cord. --Gower.
To chase a creature that was current then
In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns. --Tennyson.
2. Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
3. Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.
That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt. --Arbuthnot.
Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current. --Shak.
His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him. --Grew.
4. Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
5. Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
O Buckingham, now do I play the touch
To try if thou be current gold indeed. --Shak.
Account current. See under Account.
Current money, lawful money.
Ac·count n.
1. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
A beggarly account of empty boxes. --Shak.
2. A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.
3. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.
4. A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle. “A laudable account of the city of London.”
5. A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
Give an account of thy stewardship. --Luke xvi. 2.
6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. “To stand high in your account.”
7. Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit. “Men of account.” --Pope. “To turn to account.” --Shak.
Account current, a running or continued account between two or more parties, or a statement of the particulars of such an account.
In account with, in a relation requiring an account to be kept.
On account of, for the sake of; by reason of; because of.
On one's own account, for one's own interest or behalf.
To make account, to have an opinion or expectation; to reckon. [Obs.]
This other part . . . makes account to find no slender arguments for this assertion out of those very scriptures which are commonly urged against it. --Milton.
-- To make account of, to hold in estimation; to esteem; as, he makes small account of beauty.
To take account of, or to take into account, to take into consideration; to notice. “Of their doings, God takes no account.” --Milton.
A writ of account Law, a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; -- called also an action of account. --Cowell.
Syn: -- Narrative; narration; relation; recital; description; explanation; rehearsal.
Usage: Account, Narrative, Narration, Recital. These words are applied to different modes of rehearsing a series of events. Account turns attention not so much to the speaker as to the fact related, and more properly applies to the report of some single event, or a group of incidents taken as whole; as, an account of a battle, of a shipwreck, etc. A narrative is a continuous story of connected incidents, such as one friend might tell to another; as, a narrative of the events of a siege, a narrative of one's life, etc. Narration is usually the same as narrative, but is sometimes used to describe the mode of relating events; as, his powers of narration are uncommonly great. Recital denotes a series of events drawn out into minute particulars, usually expressing something which peculiarly interests the feelings of the speaker; as, the recital of one's wrongs, disappointments, sufferings, etc.