Impute
[ɪm'pjuːt]
Definition
(verb.) attribute or credit to; 'We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare'; 'People impute great cleverness to cats'.
(verb.) attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source; 'The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness'.
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Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us.
(v. t.) To take account of; to consider; to regard.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Ascribe (especially to some evil cause), attribute, refer, charge, consider as due.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Ascribe, refer, charge
ANT:Withdraw, retract
Checker: Nicole
Definition
v.t. to reckon as belonging to (in a bad sense): to charge: (theol.) to attribute vicariously: (rare) to take account of.—adj. Imput′able capable of being imputed or charged: attributable.—ns. Imput′ableness Imputabil′ity.—adv. Imput′ably.—n. Imputā′tion act of imputing or charging: censure: reproach: the reckoning as belonging to.—adjs. Imput′ative imputed; Imput′atively.—n. Imput′er.
Editor: Segre
Examples
- And do you impute it to either of those? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- If the former have not been as much below the general average as the latter have been above it, we ought probably to impute it to the bounty. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- For, to what else,' said Mrs General, with a slightly interrogative action of her gloves, 'could I impute--' 'To--ha--yourself, Mrs General. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You err--you err,--said the Templar, hastily, if you impute what I could neither foresee nor prevent to my purpose or agency. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Mr. Knightley could not impute to Emma a more relenting heart than she possessed, or a heart more disposed to accept of his. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I never impute motives; I both have and am a father, and I never impute motives. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It could only be imputed to increasing attachment. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Though Minorca has been twice taken, and is now probably lost for ever, that disaster has never been imputed to any neglect in the executive power. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He had married her with that bad past life hidden behind him, and she had no faith left to protest his innocence of the worst that was imputed to him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr Locke imputed this high price to the permission of exporting silver bullion, and to the prohibition of exporting silver coin. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She rejoiced in his being cleared from some part of his imputed guilt;she was sorry for him;she wished him happy. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It was imputed to very reasonable weariness, and she was thanked and pitied; but she deserved their pity more than she hoped they would ever surmise. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Inconsistencies, answered Imlac, cannot both be right, but imputed to man they may both be true. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In an hurried manner he immediately began an inquiry after her health, imputing his visit to a wish of hearing that she were better. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It is to the alcavala, accordingly, that Ustaritz imputes the ruin of the manufactures of Spain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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