count upon

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Verb

count upon (third-person singular simple present counts upon, present participle counting upon, simple past and past participle counted upon)

  1. Synonym of count on.
    • 1701, , “Chapter V”, in A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome, with the Consequences They Had upon Both Those States, London: John Nutt , →OCLC, page 50:
      They have it ready in their Mouths, that the People of England are of a Genius and Temper, never to admit Slavery among them; I think it a great Error to count upon the Genius of a Nation as a ſtanding Argument in all Ages; ſince there is hardly a Spot of Ground in Europe, where the Inhabitants have not frequently and entirely changed their Temper and Genius.