impute : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: impute	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
impute v attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" Synonym(s): impute, ascribe, assign, attribute attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source; "The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Impute \Impute"\, 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}.] 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.) 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}.