impute

impute
    v 1: attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to
         Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
         [syn: {impute}, {ascribe}, {assign}, {attribute}]
    2: attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source;
       "The teacher imputed the student's failure to his
       nervousness"
    

Impute \Im*pute"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Imputed}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Imputing}.] [F. imputer, L. imputare to bring into the
   reckoning, charge, impute; pref. im- in + putare to reckon,
   think. See {Putative}.]
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   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.
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            Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault,
            If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise. --Gray.
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            One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him --
            envy.                                 --Macaulay.
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   2. (Theol.) To adjudge as one's own (the sin or
      righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ
      is imputed to us.
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            It was imputed to him for righteousness. --Rom. iv.
                                                  22.
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            They merit
            Imputed shall absolve them who renounce
            Their own, both righteous and unrighteous deeds.
                                                  --Milton.
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   3. To take account of; to consider; to regard. [R.]
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            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}.
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55 Moby Thesaurus words for "impute":
      accredit, accuse, adduce, allege, apply, arraign, article, ascribe,
      assign, attach, attribute, book, bring accusation, bring charges,
      bring to book, charge, cite, complain, credit, denounce,
      denunciate, fasten on, fasten upon, finger, give,
      hang something on, hint, hint at, impeach, imply, indict,
      inform against, inform on, insinuate, intimate, lay, lay charges,
      lodge a complaint, lodge a plaint, pin on, place, prefer charges,
      press charges, put, put on report, refer, report, reproach,
      set down to, suggest, take to task, task, taunt with, tax, twit