impute

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

French imputer, Latin imputare (“‘to bring into the reckoning, charge, impute’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪmˈpjuːt/
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• Rhymes: -uːt

[edit] Verb

to impute (third-person singular simple present imputes, present participle imputing, simple past and past participle imputed)

1. (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.
   • Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise. -- Thomas Gray.
   • One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him - envy. --Thomas Babington Macaulay.
2. (transitive) (theology) 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.
3. (transitive) To take account of; to consider; to regard.
   • If we impute this last humiliation as the cause of his death. --Edward Gibbon.
4. (transitive) To attribute or credit to.

   We imputed this quotation to Shakespeare.

   People impute great cleverness to cats.

5. (transitive) To attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.

   The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.

[edit] Synonyms

• ascribe, assign, attribute, charge, reckon, consider, imply, insinuate

[edit] Related terms

• imputability
• imputable
• imputableness
• imputably
• imputation
• imputed

[edit] Translations

[edit] References

• impute in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• impute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: eimptu
• uptime

[edit] French

[edit] Verb

impute

1. first-person singular present indicative of imputer.
2. third-person singular present indicative of imputer.
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of imputer.
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of imputer.
5. second-person singular imperative of imputer.

[edit] Spanish

[edit] Verb

impute (infinitive: imputar)

1. first-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of imputar.
2. formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of imputar.
3. third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of imputar.