impute

impute

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

1. (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.
   • Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory oer their tomb no trophies raise. -- Thomas Gray.
   • One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him - envy. --Thomas Babington Macaulay.
2. (transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 607:

     To use the technical language of theologians, God through his grace ‘imputes’ the merits of the crucified and risen Christ to a fallen human being who remains without inherent merit, and who without this ‘imputation’ would not be ‘made’ righteous at all.

3. (transitive) To take account of; to consider; to regard.
   • If we impute this last humiliation as the cause of his death. --Edward Gibbon.
4. (transitive) To attribute or credit to.

   We imputed this quotation to Shakespeare.

   People impute great cleverness to cats.

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

   The teacher imputed the students failure to his nervousness.

	imputare
	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
	To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another
	To attribute or credit to

attribuire

Altri significati:

(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.

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

(transitive) To attribute or credit to.

(transitive) (theology) To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us.

(transitive) To take account of; to consider; to regard.

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