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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

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.]

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. [R.]

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.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.