Imputative vs. Impute

Imputativeadjective

Of, related, or pertaining to imputation.

Imputeverb

(transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.

‘The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.’;

Imputativeadjective

Transferred by imputation; that may be imputed.

‘Actual righteousness as well as imputative.’;

Imputeverb

To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.

Imputeverb

(transitive) To take into account; to consider; to regard.

Imputeverb

(transitive) To attribute or credit to.

‘People impute great cleverness to cats.’;

Imputeverb

(transitive) To replace missing data with substituted values.

Imputeverb

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.’; ‘One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him - envy.’;

Imputeverb

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.’; ‘They meritImputed shall absolve them who renounceTheir own, both righteous and unrighteous deeds.’;

Imputeverb

To take account of; to consider; to regard.

‘If we impute this last humiliation as the cause of his death.’;

Imputeverb

attribute or credit to;

‘We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare’; ‘People impute great cleverness to cats’;

Imputeverb

attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source;

‘The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness’;

Imputeverb

represent (something, especially something undesirable) as being done or possessed by someone; attribute

‘the crimes imputed to Richard’;

Imputeverb

ascribe (righteousness, guilt, etc.) to someone by virtue of a similar quality in another

‘Christ's righteousness has been imputed to us’;

Imputeverb

assign (a value) to something by inference from the value of the products or processes to which it contributes

‘by imputing the interest rates they potentially introduce a measurement error’;