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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To relate to a particular cause or source; attribute the fault or responsibility to: imputed the rocket failure to a faulty gasket; kindly imputed my clumsiness to inexperience.
  2. v. To assign as a characteristic; credit: the gracefulness so often imputed to cats. See Synonyms at attribute.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To charge; attribute; ascribe; reckon as pertaining or attributable.
  2. To reckon as chargeable or accusable; charge; tax; accuse.
  3. To attribute vicariously; ascribe as derived from another: used especially in theology. See doctrine of imputation, under imputation.
  4. To take account of; reckon; regard; consider.
  5. Synonyms Attribute, Ascribe, Refer, etc. See attribute.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To reckon as pertaining or attributable; 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.
  2. v. transitive, theology To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
  3. v. transitive To take account of; to consider; to regard.
  4. v. transitive To attribute or credit to.
  5. v. transitive To attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. 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.
  2. v. (Theol.) To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another.
  3. v. rare To take account of; to consider; to regard.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source
  2. v. attribute or credit to

Etymologies

  1. French imputer, Latin imputare ("to bring into the reckoning, charge, impute"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English imputen, from Old French emputer, from Latin imputāre : in-, in; + putāre, to settle an account. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Though I don't use the word impute too often its etymology is in some ways consistent with the answer to David's question.”

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  • “And when she gets in front of a judge that judge will "impute" an income to you even if you are unemployed and insist that you continue to support her in the style to which she is accustomed.”

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  • “We make or "impute" these mental abstractions all the time.”

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  • “Based on that sequence, as a manner of speaking, we say or "impute" that there is a habit of drinking tea.”

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  • “If it be imputed by His gracious estimation for righteousness, (which must be asserted,) and if it be imputed by His nongracious estimation; then it is apparent, in this confusion of these two axioms, that the word "impute" must be understood ambiguously, and that it has two meanings.”

    The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1

  • “If they say, that the word "impute" is received in a different acceptation, let them prove their assertion by an example; and when they have given proof of this, (which will be a work of great difficulty to them,) they will have effected nothing.”

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  • “Marco Lombardo, one of these, points out to Dante the error of such as impute our actions to necessity; explains to him that man is endued with free will; and shows that much of human depravity results from the undue mixture of spiritual and temporal authority in rulers.”

    Purgatory. Canto XVI

  • “Say people "impute" 'em, and show thou art pension'd;”

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  • “In 2001, the ONS has admitted that it had to "impute" information for 6.1 per cent of households who failed to fill in the forms - more than 1. 5million families.”

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synonyms (9)

Words with the same meaning

  1. charge
  1. ascribe
  1. attribute
  1. consider
  1. regard
  1. reckon
  1. assign
  1. imply
  1. insinuate

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. assign
  1. attribute
  1. ascribe

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. extemporal
  2. spoiled-brat
  3. thatll
  4. supposed
  1. sprightliest
  2. self-deceiving
  3. idiotical
  4. rhythmless
  1. dull-edged
  2. self-convicted
  3. man-wolf
  4. words?'
  1. profaner
  2. well-aged
  3. mid
  4. scatalogical
  1. footlight
  2. rapier-like
  3. unclerical
  4. utterest
  1. first-rate
  2. subtilest
  3. dang'rous
  4. long-departed

rhymes (56)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Beirut
  2. Bute
  3. Butte
  4. Jute
  5. Root
  6. Shute
  7. absolut
  8. acute
  9. astute
  10. boot
  11. brut
  1. brute
  2. bute
  3. butte
  4. cahoot
  5. chute
  6. commute
  7. compute
  8. coot
  9. cute
  10. dilute
  11. dispute
  1. disrepute
  2. enroute
  3. flute
  4. fruit
  5. groot
  6. hirsute
  7. hoot
  8. jute
  9. loot
  10. lute
  11. minute
  1. moot
  2. mute
  3. newt
  4. permute
  5. pollute
  6. pursuit
  7. pute
  8. recruit
  9. refute
  10. repute
  11. reroute
  1. root
  2. route
  3. salute
  4. scoot
  5. shoot
  6. smoot
  7. stroot
  8. subacute
  9. suit
  10. toot
  11. uproot
  1. voute

reverse dictionary (30)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. blame
  2. charge
  3. attribute
  4. inculpate
  5. lay
  6. wite
  1. mischaracterize
  2. suppute
  3. aret
  4. arrect
  5. mystique
  6. imputable
  1. to take (an act, thing) amiss
  2. ascribe
  3. count
  4. affix
  5. ret
  6. sanctify
  1. scandalously
  2. wrong
  3. account
  4. accuse
  5. depute
  6. give
  1. impose
  2. natural
  3. put
  4. read
  5. reckon
  6. refer

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