IMPUTE

impute, ascribe, assign, attribute

(verb) attribute or credit to; “We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare”; “People impute great cleverness to cats”

impute

(verb) attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source; “The teacher imputed the student’s failure to his nervousness”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

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

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

Synonyms: attribute, insinuate, charge, imply

(transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.

(transitive) To take into account.

Synonyms: consider, regard, reckon

(transitive) To attribute or credit to.

Synonyms: attribute, ascribe, assign

(transitive, statistics) To replace missing data with substituted values.

Anagrams

• uptime

Source: Wiktionary


Im*pute", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imputed; p. pr. & vb. n. Imputing.] Etym: [F. imputer, L. imputare to bring into the reckoning, charge, impute; pref. im- in + putare to reckon, think. See Putative.]

1. 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. Gray. One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him -- envy. Macaulay.

2. (Theol.)

Definition: 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. They merit Imputed shall absolve them who renounce Their own, both righteous and unrighteous deeds. Milton.

3. To take account of; to consider; to regard. [R.] If we impute this last humiliation as the cause of his death. Gibbon.

Syn.

– To ascribe; attribute; charge; reckon; consider; imply; insinuate; refer. See Ascribe.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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