impute

Verb

WordNet 3.0

Verb (2)

attribute or credit to“We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare”“People impute great cleverness to cats”Synonyms: ascribe assign attribute
attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source“The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness”

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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.] [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise.— Gray.[1913 Webster]

One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him— envy. --Macaulay.[1913 Webster]

2.(Theol.) To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us. [1913 Webster]

It was imputed to him for righteousness.— Rom. iv. 22.[1913 Webster]

They merit Imputed shall absolve them who renounce Their own, both righteous and unrighteous deeds.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

3.To take account of; to consider; to regard. [R.] [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]