Definition of "account of"

account of

verb
third-person singular simple present accounts of, present participle accounting of, simple past and past participle accounted of
1. (transitive, archaic, now usually passive voice) To esteem; to prize; to value.
  Quotations
  Valentine. I mean that her beauty is exquisite, but her favour infinite. / Speed. That's because the one is painted, and the other out of all count. / Valentine. How painted? and how out of count? / Speed. Marry, sir, so painted, to make her fair, that no man counts of her beauty. / Valentine. How esteem'st thou me? I account of her beauty. / Speed. You never saw her since she was deformed?
  1591, William Shakespeare, edited by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, published 1921, page 17
  Never was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century.
  1863, Rev. Canon Robinson, “Sermons and Preaching”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume VII, page 410
  Bard, Hoskuld’s son, had also been a seafarer, and was well accounted of wherever he went, for he was the best of brave men and true, and a man of moderation in all things.
  1964 , Muriel Press, transl., edited by Peter Foote, The Laxdale Saga, pages 78–9