impute
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
French imputer, Latin imputare (“to bring into the reckoning, charge, impute”).
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impute (third-person singular simple present imputes, present participle imputing, simple past and past participle imputed)
- (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.
- (transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 607:
- To use the technical language of theologians, God through his grace ‘imputes’ the merits of the crucified and risen Christ to a fallen human being who remains without inherent merit, and who without this ‘imputation’ would not be ‘made’ righteous at all.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 607:
- (transitive) To take account of; to consider; to regard.
- If we impute this last humiliation as the cause of his death. --Edward Gibbon.
- (transitive) To attribute or credit to.
- We imputed this quotation to Shakespeare.
- People impute great cleverness to cats.
- (transitive) To attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
- The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.
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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
To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another
To take account of; to consider; to regard
To attribute or credit to
To attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source
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[edit] References
- impute in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- impute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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[edit] Verb
impute
- first-person singular present indicative of imputer
- third-person singular present indicative of imputer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of imputer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of imputer
- second-person singular imperative of imputer
[edit] Spanish
[edit] Verb
impute (infinitive imputar)
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