impute

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

1. (transitive) 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.
2. (transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
3. (transitive) To take account of; to consider; to regard.
4. (transitive) To attribute or credit to.

   We imputed this quotation to Shakespeare.

   People impute great cleverness to cats.

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

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