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US
/ˌɪmˈpjut/
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[ UK /ɪmpjˈuːt/ ]
[ UK /ɪmpjˈuːt/ ]
VERB
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attribute or credit to
People impute great cleverness to cats
We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare -
attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source
The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness
How To Use impute In A Sentence
- They imputed the error to the lawyer who was handling her case.
- Tis really doing Injustice to the Country to impute to it such [illegible] uncandid, illiberal [illegible] Productions, but no Wonder these John Adams diary 7, 21 March - 18 October 1761
- The righteousness of saints, both imputed and implanted, is the fine linen, clean and white, with which the bride, the Lamb's wife, is arrayed, Rev. xix. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
- They imputed the error to the lawyer who was handling her case.
- Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will impute sin.
- Sea Waybill Rule 3 imputes the status of agent for the consignee to the shipper-consignor.
- Since worship is the primary, often exclusive means of Christian catechesis, what will be the effect of language in which the doctrinally ill-equipped worshiper must impute the Nicene faith to the Eucharistic prayer?
- The movie perverts the radicalism imputed to rock in the 60s.
- He says that the words complained of were meant and calculated to disparage the Claimant in his profession and business and also that they imputed to him the criminal offences of harassment stalking and theft.
- The substantial pledge has been refined into the invisible rights of a mortgage or hypotheca; and the agreement of sale, for a certain price, imputes, from that moment, the chances of gain or loss to the account of the purchaser. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4