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Definition of Impute
1. Verb. Attribute or credit to. "People impute great cleverness to cats"
Generic synonyms: Evaluate, Judge, Pass Judgment
Specialized synonyms: Carnalize, Sensualize, Credit, Reattribute, Anthropomorphise, Anthropomorphize, Personate, Personify, Accredit, Credit, Blame, Charge, Externalise, Externalize, Project, Interiorise, Interiorize, Internalise, Internalize
Derivative terms: Ascribable, Ascription, Attributable, Imputation
2. Verb. Attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source. "The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness"
Related verbs: Ascribe, Assign, Attribute
Derivative terms: Imputation
Definition of Impute
1. v. t. 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.
Definition of Impute
1. Verb. (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. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) (term to) someone by substitution. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To take account of; to consider; to regard. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To attribute or credit to. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impute
1. to credit to a person or a cause [v -PUTED, -PUTING, -PUTES]
Medical Definition of Impute
1. 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. 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. "If we impute this last humiliation as the cause of his death." (Gibbon) Synonym: To ascribe, attribute, charge, reckon, consider, imply, insinuate, refer. See Ascribe. Origin: F. Imputer, L. Imputare to bring into the reckoning, charge, impute; pref. Im- in + putare to reckon, think. See Putative. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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