impute

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  1. transitive verb 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. transitive verb To assign as a characteristic; credit: the gracefulness so often imputed to cats. See Synonyms at attribute.

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  • Personal malice alone, however, could impute (p. 162) his disclaimer either to malice or to envy. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of James Fenimore Cooper by Thomas R. Lounsbury
  • If you find me besides the truth in anything, impute that to my infirmity. —  Miscellanies
  • But if you find anything here that serves to your furtherance and joy of the faith, impute that to the mercy of God bestowed on you and me. —  Miscellanies
  • Moreover, I am desperately afraid lest among the other nations this affair bring a great disgrace to our Germany, as the great mass of men are accustomed to impute the foolishness of a few to the entire nation. —  Biblical Evidence for Catholicism
  • Of course, mere family relationship is not enough to impute equivalent political party, but from season 3, we know that Wayne was David's chief of staff. —  The Yin Blog
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  1. Middle English imputen, from Old French emputer, from Latin imputāre : in-, in; see in-2 + putāre, to settle an account; see pau-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French imputer = Spanish Portuguese imputar = Italian imputare, from Latin imputare, inputare, enter into the account, reckon, set to the account of, attribute, from in, in, to, + putare, estimate, reckon: see putative. Of. compute, depute, repute.
 

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