Verb
account to (third-person singular simple present accounts to, present participle accounting to, simple past and past participle accounted to)
(transitive) To answer to; to be responsible to.
I don't have to account to you for my actions.
Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping. Plutarch
Magnanimity owes no account to prudence of its motives. Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
No fewer than four of my esteemed elders told me I was on no account to ever converse with you, so I vowed that I would know you. My name is Edmund Herondale. May I ask your name? They reffered to you only as 'that disgraceful one-warlock show. Cassandra Clare
The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much. Virginia Woolf
I thought only of one thing, to account to myself for the laws of light and perspective. I did not attach any importance to what they found original, new and romantic in me, I sought the picture. Théodore Rousseau
In your 20s, you're checking your bank account to make sure you're not broke. In your 30s, you're looking at yourself and realizing you're broken. Paul Rust