Uttal
US- Okänd accent:
- IPA: /ɪmˈpjuːt/
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Definitioner
Verb
- (transitive) To reckon as pertaining or attributable; 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.
- (transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
- (transitive) To take account of; to consider; to regard.
- (transitive) To attribute or credit to.
- (transitive) To attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
Exempel
- Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, // If mem’ry o’er their tomb no trophies raise, // Where thro’ the long-drawn isle and fretted vault, // The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
- He was vain, sensual, frivolous, profuse, improvident. One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him, envy.
- We ascribe or impute motives to others and avow them or confess to them in ourselves.
- To use the technical language of theologians, God through his grace ‘imputes’ the merits of the crucified and risen Christ to a fallen human being who remains without inherent merit, and who without this ‘imputation’ would not be ‘made’ righteous at all.
- They ſerved with honour in the wars of Bajazet; but a plan of fortifying Conſtantinople excited his jealouſy: he threatened their lives; the new works were inſtantly demoliſhed; and we ſhall beſtow a praiſe, perhaps above the merit of Palæologus, if we impute this laſt humiliation as the cauſe of his death.
- We imputed this quotation to Shakespeare.
- People impute great cleverness to cats.
- The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.
Böjningsformer
| Perfektparticip | imputed |
| Imperfekt | imputed |
| Presensparticip | imputing |
| Tredje person singular indicativ presens | imputes |
| Tredje person singular indicativ presens | imputeth |