Verb

(imput)

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.

* 1751 , (Thomas Gray), , lines 37–40:

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.

* 1856 February, , “(Oliver Goldsmith)” in the (eighth edition), volume and page numbers unknown:

He was vain, sensual, frivolous, profuse, improvident. One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him, envy.

* 1956–1960 , (second edition, 1960), chapter ii: “Motives and Motivation”, page 29:

We ascribe or impute motives to others and avow them or confess to them in ourselves.

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

* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin (2010), page 607:

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.

To take account of; to consider; to regard.

* 1788 , (Edward Gibbon), (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) VI, chapter lxiv, “A.D. 1355–1391: The Emperor John Palæologus; Discord of the Greeks”, page 328:

They ?erved with honour in the wars of Bajazet; but a plan of fortifying Con?tantinople excited his jealou?y: he threatened their lives; the new works were in?tantly demoli?hed; and we ?hall be?tow a prai?e, perhaps above the merit of Palæologus, if we impute this la?t humiliation as the cau?e of his death.

To attribute or credit to.

We imputed this quotation to Shakespeare.

People impute great cleverness to cats.

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

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

Verb

(en verb)

To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.

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he would often assert his beliefs to us

To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.

to assert one's authority

Salman Rushdie has asserted his right ... to be identified as the author of this work

To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.

The quasi-judicial pre-grant process of asserting patent rights and appeals procedures during patent examination; 'to assert' patent rights means to defend or maintain patent rights.

(computer science) To make true; to make equal to 1. (rfex)