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Calculate. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Thornton’s An American Glossary. 1912, rev. 2022. Calculate To think; to “guess”; to “reckon.”

1 bef. 1812.  Capital, gentlemen! capital! You are right humorsome, I calculate. What’s to pay?—John Bernard, ‘Retrospections of America,’ p. 307 (N.Y., 1887).

2 1850, 1857, &c.  N.E.D.

3 1851.  I kalkilated them curs o’ hisn wasn’t worth shucks in a bar fight.—‘Polly Peablossom’s Wedding,’ &c., p. 51.

4 1852.  The New Englander calculates, the Westerner reckons.—Yale Lit. Mag., xvii. 177 (March).

5 1867.          ‘Wal, Square, I guess so. Callilate to stay? I ’ll ask Mis’ Weeks; ’bout thet it ’s hern to say.’ Lowell, ‘Fitz-Adam’s Story.’    

6 1869.  Kalklate to quit the business [of stage-driving] next trip. I’m getting well on in years, you see, and don’t like it so well as I used to, afore I was busted in!—J. Ross Browne, ‘Adventures in the Apache Country,’ p. 313.

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