Verb
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.
To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us.
To take account of; to consider; to regard.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. Jonathan Swift
O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good. Joseph Addison
Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him. Peter Drucker
The sin I impute to each frustrute ghost Is-the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say. Robert Browning
Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that has brought upon him the character of heretic. Benjamin Franklin
Is it what we impart, or impute to nature from ourselves, that we chiefly lean upon? or does she truly impart of what is really in her to us? Jean Ingelow