Found 2 items, similar to Imputing.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: impute impute v 1: attribute or credit to; “We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare”; “People impute great cleverness to cats” [syn: ascribe, assign, attribute] 2: attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source; “The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Imputing 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.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise. --Gray. [1913 Webster] One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him -- envy. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us. [1913 Webster] It was imputed to him for righteousness. --Rom. iv. 22. [1913 Webster] They merit Imputed shall absolve them who renounce Their own, both righteous and unrighteous deeds. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. To take account of; to consider; to regard. [R.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]