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imputeth

imputeth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of impute.

Meaning of impute

Verb

impute (third-person singular simple present imputes, present participle imputing, simple past and past participle imputed)

  1. (transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
    • The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.
  2. (transitive) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
    • 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.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin (2010), page 607
  3. (transitive) To take into account.
    • 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...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
  4. (transitive) To attribute, ascribe, blame, or credit to.
    • People impute great cleverness to cats.
  5. (transitive) To replace missing data with substituted values.
    • 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.2010, Mamdouh Refaat, Data Preparation for Data Mining Using SAS, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 184

Origin of imputeth

impute + -eth

Questions about imputeth

What is imputeth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Imputeth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of impute.

Words near imputeth in the dictionary

  1. imputedly
  2. imputer
  3. imputers
  4. imputes
  5. imputest
  6. imputeth
  7. imputing
  8. imputrescibility
  9. imputrescible
  10. imputs
  11. Impuzamugambi

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