Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Account \Ac*count"\, v. i.
   1. To render or receive an account or relation of
      particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the
      treasurer for money received.

   2. To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for;
      as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.

   3. To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to
      explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.

   {To account of}, to esteem; to prize; to value. Now used only
      in the passive. ``I account of her beauty.'' --Shak.

            Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the
            sixteenth century.                    --Canon
                                                  Robinson.