Definition of Impute

Im`pute´
v. t.1.
[imp. & p. p. Imputed; p. pr. & vb. n. Imputing.]
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.(Theol.) 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.


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