Impute: Definition and part of speech

Impute

  1. v. t. To take account of; to consider; to regard.
  2. v. t. 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.
  3. v. t. To adjudge as one’s own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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