Meaning of Dutch reckoning | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A (falsified) bill that is not itemised, and that is unjustifiably high.
   archaic, idiomatic, uncommon, uncountable
2. A false or incorrect reckoning of position.
   uncountable
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Dutch, reckoning.
   uncountable

Examples

“As if all Light of Reasoning were so shut up in Clavius his Brain, that because he does not see, the rest of Mankind must be blind; and what is that way of Reasoning that he betakes himself to, but by huddling the Principles of Geometry into Confusion, without order of method of Reasoning, to make a Conclusion, like a Dutch''' Reckoning of Allem-al?”

“"You knows we never took Mike's duds till you couldn't pay his charges any longer; and since we comes to that, there's two weeks of three shillings and sixpence due for your lodging in the Star-Chamber, for yourself and Master Lionel Falconer, which I supposes you means to pay with a Dutch reckoning: you sees I can speak some names right enough,—d'ye take me,—hey?" and with an ill-natured leer he left the hall.”

“'That's better!' he said, still smiling, but very much more pleasantly. 'Rig Jane out in the first style of elegance, and send me a Dutch reckoning: I don't want to know the particulars.'”

“1 March 1625 in the Dutch reckoning was, in the English reckoning of the time, 19 February 1624.”

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