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
Then entered the guilt of Adam's sin imputed to posterity, and a general corruption and depravedness of nature. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
The imputed income also includes the employer portion of FICA taxes, but if you read the whole report you will discover that the upper income brackets pay more percent wise in imputed taxes than those making under $102k, which is the cutoff for FICA taxes. Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Bush Tax Cuts
To put the blame for; attribute or impute.
We might express a just surprise that Catholics should be offended at the doctrine that the righteousness of Christ is imputed, that is, reckoned or counted, to the sinner as his own. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
As an aside, how much of the decrease in progressivity comes from greater breadth of stock ownership -- if more people own stock, then more people are imputed to be be paying corporate income taxes -- not that such imputations have anything to do with actual tax incidence? The Distribution of Tax Burdens, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
For otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlooked for; and ever it mends some, and pairs others; and he that holpen, takes it for a fortune, and thanks the time; and he that is hurt, for a wrong, and imputeth it to the author. The Essays
recovering the initial outlay plus imputed interest.
And it relies on anti-Jewish stereotypes to impute a pre-diagramed psychology upon someone of whom the libeler has no understanding. Jeff Dorchen: The Suicidebaums and the Self-Hating Jews
“The year 2008” is the basis on which the totally conceptional “categorynot-yet-happening” can be imputed in the conceptual cognition of the year 2008 as being in the category of “not-yet-happening.” What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? �� Part Two: Variant Indian Buddhist Views Concerning Temporally Related Phenomena
The ancient rabbinic text, the Mishnah, states: "A single man was created in the world, to teach that if any man has caused a single soul to perish, scripture imputes it to him as if he had caused a whole world to perish, and if any man saves alive a single soul, scripture imputes it to him as if he had saved alive a whole world... Rabbi Jack Bemporad: An Open Letter To Congress From Leaders of the Faith Community: Don't Cut Foreign Aid!
This has, indeed, long since been insufferable; although it ought chiefly to be imputed to the imprudent penuriousness of our own merchants and inhabitants, who, it is to be hoped, shall, through the abolition of this seawant, become wiser and more prudent. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
His Holiness distills the essence of the ninth wisdom chapter in a succinct and effortlessly authoritative presentation of how all phenomena are dependently arisen, empty of inherent existence, mere dependently imputed. Bodhisattva's Way of Life
Too often, our politicians disparage Europe and impute to it evils - like unemployment - that are really the result of domestic insufficiencies.
`In requesting a separate account," he intoned, `I don't wish to impute criticism of the Mistress of Tachnadray. THE TARTAN RINGERS
I was indifferent, I said, about what he could say of me; and I was sure it could not be to my disadvantage; and as he had no reason to impute to me the forwardness which my unkind friends had so causelessly taxed me with. Clarissa Harlowe
The section should be interpreted to impute income where the obligor has pursued a deliberate course of conduct for the purpose of evading child support obligations.
I was not satisfied that any general political opinion could be imputed to him on the lines of his being on the side of law and order and against the ‘dark forces’ of guerrillas and criminal gangs.
The most celebrated instance in which human agency was used to copy the disturbances imputed to supernatural beings refers to the ancient palace of Woodstock, when the Commissioners of the Long Parliament came down to dispark what had been lately a royal residence. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
Thus, in the immediate context Paul is teaching that God imputes righteousness by faith in Christ apart from works.
Lucy had grown bigger in her eyes while sitting there and talking, and had lost much of that missish want of importance — that lack of social weight — which Lady Lufton in her own opinion had always imputed to her. Framley Parsonage
When political songsters talk of this kind of change, they are often referring to the imputed ability of songs to help ‘educate’ people.
If the parties reach an agreement as to the continued occupation of the premises by the tenant during that limbo period, what intention is to be imputed to them?
In other words, most of the evils imputed to my solution in fact continue under the occupation.
Since this is the season when humidity especially soddens and boredom particularly dispirits, mightn't we impute the same high taste to Bill Bradley's choice of a day in August for announcing that he cannot endure further service in the Senate? Bradley's Escape
So if your reaction to the guy on the street at the top of this column was to step up your pace and get away from him (which corresponds to saying "this is nuts" and closing your browser window), your opinion would not affect the outcome -- but if you happen to be a Republican, Harris's methodology imputes to you a likelihood of holding crazy views. 'Wingnuts': An Autobiography?
‘When those connections are made in this campaign and are imputed to this president, it's going to be a very bad thing for the president,’ he said.
His remarks impute to Jewishness itself a hawkish pro-Israeli bias.
Baius fell under censure for asserting (Props. 74, 75) that "concupiscence in the baptized is a sin, though not imputed. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
Still the promptness to laugh is an excellent progenitorial foundation for the wit to come in a people; and undoubtedly the diarial record of an imputed piece of wit is witness to the spouting of laughter. Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1
Yet there was something of majesty, depressed indeed and overclouded, but still grand and imposing, in the manner and words of Father Buonaventure, which it was difficult to reconcile with those preconceived opinions which imputed subtlety and fraud to his sect and order. Redgauntlet
He said the town has other property with water and sewer hookups that is ready to be developed; he therefore imputes political motives to the plan to take the last of this land.
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. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
Then entered the guilt of Adam's sin imputed to posterity, and a general corruption and depravedness of nature. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
He then considered the situation wherein workers impute no value to the insurance and demand for the industry's product is inelastic.
And it relies on anti-Jewish stereotypes to impute a pre-diagramed psychology upon someone of whom the libeler has no understanding. Jeff Dorchen: The Suicidebaums and the Self-Hating Jews
Imputed the rocket failure to a faulty gasket; kindly imputed my clumsiness to inexperience.
Attributing a "natural" quality to Greek humanity, Schiller also imputes ethnic character, falling readily into a racialized stereotype in a way that makes us nervous about the similarly collective and not-quite intentional sense of "culture" today. Rei Terada
Where the defendant's comment imputes corrupt, dishonest or wicked motives to the claimant the position is different.
They imputed the error to the lawyer who was handling her case.
Though I don't use the word impute too often its etymology is in some ways consistent with the answer to David's question. Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
But in my view such knowledge should not be imputed to the company, for the essence of the arrangement was to deprive the company improperly of a large part of its assets.
I have done Gourgaud no wrong: every word imputed to him exists in the papers submitted to me as historical documents [28], and I should have been a shameful coward if I had shunned using them. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
Such explanation implies an inveracity which it is not necessary to impute. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals
And if you must impute some spiritual importance to the wine and the moment, think of it as the fellowship of commensality, even sort of a secular eucharistic feast. Mondosapore
These I would impute to the bad water, impregnated with the vitriol and brine of coal, as there is nothing in the constitution of the air that should render such distempers endemial. Travels through France and Italy
We make or "impute" these mental abstractions all the time. The Mechanism of Karma: The Mahayana Presentation, Except for Gelug Prasangika �� Session Three: The Aftermath of Karma
The police were not guilty of the violence imputed to them.
`In requesting a separate account," he intoned, `I don't wish to impute criticism of the Mistress of Tachnadray. THE TARTAN RINGERS
On the gripping hand, all this imputes a degree of strategic clarity to Obama and his advisers for which there is no real evidence. Matthew Yglesias » The Strategy Gap in Afghanistan
Never was affliction so cutting as hers; she imputed the piercingness of it to what had happened that day, and believed that if the Duke de Nemours had not had ground to believe she loved him she should not have cared whether he loved another or not; but she deceived herself, and this evil which she found so insupportable was jealousy with all the horrors it can be accompanied with. The Princess of Cleves
Of course he denies all of this and, in an act of arrogance that seems consistent with the Machiavellian machinations imputed to him, refuses to dignify the charges with a response.
III de fide justif., sec. xi: "The term justification in this instance means the declaring just, the freeing from sin and the eternal punishment of sin in consideration of the justice of Christ imputed to faith by God. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
Based on that sequence, as a manner of speaking, we say or "impute" that there is a habit of drinking tea. Basic Questions on Karma and Rebirth
It is grossly unfair to impute blame to the United Nations.
A friend of mine suggested that "lilied" was peculiarly appropriate to form "cold nymphs chaste crowns," from its imputed power as a preserver of chastity: and in MR. HALLIWELL'S folio, several examples are quoted from old poets of "peony" spelt "piony;" and of both _peony_ and _lily_ as Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
As for your views about religion as a control mechanism, on the one hand, you abstract from every real religion Taoism is characterized by many varied superstitions, such as the search for physical immortality, not the empty throne you impute to me, for instance. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
In a nutshell, the issue was whether God's righteousness is imputed (thus the Lutherans) or imparted (thus Rome).
He is highly overrated as a strategist - indeed Democrats have imputed to him almost magical powers to shape events in the most complicated ways.
The happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jumping back to Samuel Johnson's word impute, its meaning was to subtract from that same metaphorical balance sheet. about podictionary Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
This righteousness is imputed to those who trust in Him.
For those who suppose a bad cause for laudable works and commendable actions, endeavoring by calumnies to insinuate sinister suspicions of the actor when they cannot openly discommend the act, — as they that impute the killing of Essays and Miscellanies
I know of no government that would risk public ire and obloquy by attempting to tax that ‘imputed income.’
The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness
Conventional truth is the dependently originated multiplicity of phenomena each of which is mentally imputed upon a basis that is other than itself. Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary
It imputes to Proust's text the ability to contradict itself without intervention.
The father's views, the article properly noted, cannot simply be imputed to the son.
People impute great cleverness to cats
recovering the initial outlay plus imputed interest.
The Appellant maintains that he fears persecution by the state for political or imputed political reasons.
Crucial facts are elided and fictitious positions are imputed to his opponents.
It is faith in Jesus Christ, whose righteousness has been imputed to us by the free grace of God.
Perhaps a key way to fix things is to impute the loss to information processing-based economies on a country basis - as a tax on top of transactions aside from Treasury purchases.
I listen not to the country people telling it was experimented by a goose, which was put in and came out again with _life_ (though without feathers); but hearken seriously to those who judiciously impute the _subsidency_ of the earth in the interstice aforesaid to some underground hollowness made by that water in the passage thereof. Highways and Byways in Surrey
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
The ancients were much more severe and less simoniacal than we are notwithstanding that they imputed so many foolish actions to their gods. A Philosophical Dictionary
The value of a chalupa is not imputed through the sweat equity of the migrant workers.
Now, the fair value of the option will be imputed at the time of issue and amortized as an expense in the profit and loss account over the vesting period.
We have the word imputed just once in the New Testament. Unspoken Sermons Third Series
Whatever knowledge he may have had with respect to illegal activities, that knowledge cannot be imputed to Lloyd's.
God imputes to Christ, makes over to Christ, lays upon Christ our iniquity and our sin and our unrighteousness and our wickedness.
In suffering for a crime that is imputed to him, he both recalls and anticipates the many African Americans who lost their lives because of the groundless accusations made by whites.
For God, the supremely good, is not the author of evils, but the rational and defectible will is the cause of sin; wherefore let no one impute his midsdeeds and crimes to God, but to himself, according to Jer. The Confutatio Pontificia
It is dangerous to impute "development" in Kerouac's work, since the publication dates and the dates of composition of his books are so much at variance. Style in Fiction
Consumers would make their own judgments and the resulting demand would impute value to these warranties.
The police were not guilty of the violence imputed to them.
I think she has a masculine air, and is a little forbidding at first: but when I saw her behaviour to two agreeable gentlewomen, her husband's nieces, whom, for that reason, she calls doubly hers, and heard their praises of her, I could imputer her very bulk to good humour; since we seldom see your sour peevish people plump. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3
They show that interhousehold income inequality is further reduced if this imputed revenue is included. The Times Literary Supplement
The King looked after him, with some wonder at this want of breeding, which, however, he imputed to his visitor’s insular education, and then again began to twangle his viol. Anne of Geierstein
However, Campbell and his associates are right to point out that the desire to see the common property model work has led many researchers to impute a degree of jural formality to local commons that is misplaced.
I impute his failure to laziness.
The only thing I ask of his Majesty is, that the diocese of Cambrai, which is guiltless, may not suffer for the errors imputed to me. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
In regard to the THIRD point -- that to an evil person is then imputed the evil of his life, and to a good person the good of his life, it is to be observed, that the imputation of evil is not accusation, inculpation, and judication, as in the world, but evil itself produces this effect; for the evil freely separate themselves from the good, since they cannot remain together. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
Thus an assertion which does not suggest discreditable conduct by the plaintiff may still be defamatory if it imputes to him or her a condition calculated to diminish the respect and confidence in which the plaintiff is held. Archive 2009-10-01
He now thinks of us as righteous because He imputes, that is He gives to us the righteousness of Christ which has been won on the cross. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
The politician tried to impute some unfortunate remarks to his enemy.
Should the investor impute a $2 per share amortization charge annually ($80 divided by 40 years) to calculate"true" earnings per share?
The title of this book, Alter / Asians, is meant to challenge the categorical otherness that is still imputed to Asia and Asians in Australia.
And when she gets in front of a judge that judge will "impute" an income to you even if you are unemployed and insist that you continue to support her in the style to which she is accustomed. Want a Husband? Try a Eur-Male Pass
Sands and Eastman, Limericked, Victuallers, went and, with his unmitigated astonissment, hickicked at the dun and dorass against all the runes and, when challenged about the pretended hick (it was kickup and down with him) on his solemn by the imputant imputed, said simply: I appop pie oath, Phillyps Captain. Finnegans Wake
Further, prodigality and meanness are excesses and defects with regard to wealth; and meanness we always impute to those who care more than they ought for wealth, but we sometimes apply the word 'prodigality' in a complex sense; for we call those men prodigals who are incontinent and spend money on self-indulgence. The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
Other longterm incentives are fixed incentives such as paid insurance premiums and imputed interest on reduced rate loans.
Such possession of supernatural wisdom is still imputed by the natives of the Orkney and Zetland Islands to the people called Drows, being a corruption of duergar or dwarfs, and who may, in most other respects, be identified with the Caledonian fairies. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
-- To what cause are we to impute this frigid silence -- this torpid indifference -- this cold inanimated conduct of the otherwise warm and generous Americans? The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
Similarly, the temporal continuum imputed on the basis of such no-longer-happening, presently-happening, and not-yet-happening temporal intervals is also merely what the mental label temporal continuum refers to on their basis, without there being any such findable referent “thing” as a “temporal continuum.” What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? �� Part Two: Variant Indian Buddhist Views Concerning Temporally Related Phenomena
Sadowa; while the thought which animated the court is admirably expressed in the phrase imputed to the empress who, pointing to the prince imperial, said, "This child will never reign unless we repair the misfortunes of Sadowa. Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4
It is grossly unfair to impute blame to the United Nations.
From an economic point of view, therefore, interest imputes to individuals just as does wages.
Note in particular how the opinion imputes the motivations of the narrators in the 2 Live Crew version to the narrator in the Orbison song. If a book meets a book coming through the rye
The over-heating of real estate industry can't be imputed to excessive profit-pursue of local government and developer.
Notwithstanding this intelligence, I was inclinable to impute some part of the charge to The Adventures of Roderick Random
The conclusion of Epstein's essay is of continuing relevance to the mythical role imputed to the press in uncovering Watergate.
It's called imputed income - I think I've seen some folks refer to it as the gay tax. On not being married. (What if No One's Watching?)
A friend of mine suggested that "lilied" was peculiarly appropriate to form "cold nymphs chaste crowns," from its imputed power as a preserver of chastity: and in MR. HALLIWELL'S folio, several examples are quoted from old poets of "peony" spelt "piony;" and of both _peony_ and _lily_ as Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
They mutually compassionated his unhappy situation in domestic life, and Cecilia innocently expressed her concern at the dislike Lady Margaret seemed to have taken to her; a dislike which Mr Harrel naturally enough imputed to her youth and beauty, yet without suspecting any cause more cogent than a general jealousy of attractions of which she had herself so long outlived the possession. Cecilia
`In requesting a separate account," he intoned, `I don't wish to impute criticism of the Mistress of Tachnadray. THE TARTAN RINGERS
Our sins were reckoned to him and his righteousness was imputed to us.
Jones very (hrewdly fufpedied, that Sophia herfelf was now with her confin, and was denied to him; which he imputed to her refentment for what had hap - pened at Upton. The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With the Life of the Author. In Twelve Volumes. A New Edition ...
He looks with contempt upon his honest toil; repeats mockingly to himself, his simple talk when at meals, about the weather and the crops; sneers at his neatness, and orderliness, and cleanliness; imputes to him his own libidinousness. An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
This wilful injuria is in law malicious, although no malicious purpose to cause the harm which was caused, nor any motive of spite, is imputed to the defendant.
Thus, in the conceptual cognition of “the year 2008” on which is imputed, for instance, “the category not-yet-happening,” although the existent totally conceptional category is the appearing object (snang-yul) that is directly before the mental consciousness as part of the essential nature of that conceptual cognition, the “year 2008” is what appears (snang-ba) through it. What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? �� Part Two: Variant Indian Buddhist Views Concerning Temporally Related Phenomena
Green, at Ushaw; there was nothing of that smoothness, or mannerism, which is commonly imputed to them, and they were more natural and unaffected than many an Anglican clergyman. Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Diverse other adjectives interpretable as flaws of character could be imputed to him, but he was nevertheless invaluable, and when all was said and done that was what really mattered.
That if there are two possible readings, one that would impute to that court injudicial behavior, lack of integrity, indeed, dishonesty, and the other that would read the opinion to say we think this court is attempting to construe the state law but it may have been wrong, we might have interpreted it differently, but we are not the arbiters, they are? CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Florida Recount: Election 2000 Goes Before Supreme Court - December 1, 2000
He exhibits a reserve, diffidence, and even bashfulness, which is in some degree attractive, and leads the observer to thinly that the ferocious and bloodthirsty character imputed to the race must be grossly exaggerated. The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2
But you make a third minglement of things separate, when you bring in imputed righteousness. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
As the NSW hospitals data had also been geo-coded, we could impute an EFI quintile for each patient, based on the actual distribution of SES at the Collection District-sex-age level.
For the most part the later sonnets of celebration of the Friend impute no such extraordinary motives to the Poet.
Neither did his frank and manly deportment, though indicating a total indifference to danger, bear the least resemblance to that of the bravoes or swashbucklers of the day, amongst whom Henry was sometimes unjustly ranked by those who imputed the frays in which he was so often engaged to a quarrelsome and violent temper, resting upon a consciousness of his personal strength and knowledge of his weapon. The Fair Maid of Perth
To deny imputed righteousness is to gut justification entirely.
In this chapter the apostle condemns a sinful regarding of the rich, and despising the poor, which he imputes to partiality and injustice, and shows it to be an acting contrary to God, who has chosen the poor, and whose interest is often persecuted, and his name blasphemed, by the rich, ver. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
It is grossly unfair to impute blame to the United Nations.
The product of these teleological arguments is the God class, the Deus Irae, the Empire, for it is through them that the attributes and methods of an assumed creator are imputed from the morphology of what is assumed to be that creator's creation. THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FOUR
Persistence in unremunerative employment may entitle the court to impute income.
Surprised by this readiness, and struck by the view of the note, Mrs. Mittin imputed to mere reserve the denial of her expected wealth, but readily promised to get in the bills, and see her clear. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
Oscott, at Old Hall Green, at Ushaw; there was nothing of that smoothness, or mannerism, which is commonly imputed to them, and they were more natural and unaffected than many an Anglican clergyman. Apologia pro Vita Sua

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