About The Word Impute
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Impute
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What's The Definition Of Impute?
[v] attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
[v] attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source; "The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness" Synonyms | Synonyms for Impute: ascribe | assign | attribute | repute Related Terms | Find terms related to Impute: accredit | accuse | adduce | allege | apply | arraign | article | ascribe | assign | attach | attribute | book | bring accusation | bring charges | bring to book | charge | cite | complain | credit | denounce | denunciate | fasten on | fasten upon | finger | give | hang something on | hint | hint at | impeach | imply | indict | inform against | inform on | insinuate | intimate | lay | lay charges | lodge a complaint | lodge a plaint | pin on | place | prefer charges | press charges | put | put on report | refer | report | reproach | set down to | suggest | take to task | task | taunt with | tax | twit See Also | accredit | anthropomorphise | anthropomorphize | blame | carnalize | charge | credit | externalise | externalize | interiorise | interiorize | internalise | internalize | judge | personate | personify | project | reattribute | sensualize Impute In Webster's Dictionary \Im*pute"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Imputed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Imputing}.] [F. imputer, L. imputare to bring into the
reckoning, charge, impute; pref. im- in + putare to reckon,
think. See {Putative}.]
1. To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account
of; to charge to one as the author, responsible
originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense.
Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If
memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise. --Gray.
One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him --
envy. --Macaulay.
2. (Theol.) To adjudge as one's own (the sin or
righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ
is imputed to us.
It was imputed to him for righteousness. --Rom. iv.
22.
They merit Imputed shall absolve them who renounce
Their own, both righteous and unrighteous deeds.
--Milton.
3. To take account of; to consider; to regard. [R.]
If we impute this last humiliation as the cause of
his death. --Gibbon.
Syn: To ascribe; attribute; charge; reckon; consider; imply;
insinuate; refer. See {Ascribe}.
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