Countercaster

Coun´ter`cast`er

A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; - used contemptuously.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

References in periodicals archive

Iago's epithets for Cassio--"debitor and creditor," "countercaster"--seem strange in the context of the debate between martial "theorike" and "practike." Cassio has, as Jorgensen notes, probably been reading books similar to Stratioticos.

Jewel, purse, trash: reckoning and reputation in Othello

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