impute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpjuːt/
ipa: /ɪmˈpjut/
ipa: /ɪmˈpjʉːt/
ipa: /əmˈpjʉːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: imputes
form: imputing
form: imputed
form: imputed
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French imputer, from Latin imputō (“to bring into the reckoning, charge, impute”).
Senses: examples: text: The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.
text: 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.
ref: 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, lines 37–40:
text: I impute my improvement more to the kind attentions of Lord Allerton, who is my companion still, and will not, I think, leave me, than to the sea air.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 141:
text: He was vain, sensual, frivolous, profuse, improvident. One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him, envy.
ref: 1856 February, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “"Oliver Goldsmith"”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 8th edition, volume and page numbers unknown:
text: We ascribe or impute motives to others and avow them or confess to them in ourselves.
ref: 1956–1960, Richard Stanley Peters, “2: Motives and Motivation”, in The Concept of Motivation, Routledge & Kegan Paul (second edition, 1960), page 29:
synonyms: attribute
insinuate
charge
imply
glosses: To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin (2010), page 607:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1788, Edward Gibbon, “Chapter 64: A.D. 1355–1391: The Emperor John Palæologus; Discord of the Greeks”, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 6, page 328:
synonyms: consider
regard
reckon
glosses: To take into account.
examples: text: People impute great cleverness to cats.
text: In any case, the practices imputed to Shakespeare as an emergent dramatist were not in the least exceptional.
ref: 2014, Janet Clare, Shakespeare's Stage Traffic, page 11:
synonyms: attribute
ascribe
assign
glosses: To attribute or credit to.
examples: text: We will use a logistic regression model to impute values of nominal and ordinal variables and a linear regression model to impute values of continuous variables.
ref: 2010, Mamdouh Refaat, Data Preparation for Data Mining Using SAS, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 184:
text: remove observed values and impute
ref: 2012, Stef van Buuren, Flexible Imputation of Missing Data, page 263:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: To replace missing data with substituted values.
Derived terms: imputability
imputable
imputableness
imputably
imputation
imputative
imputed
misimpute