[im.pute] vt im.put.ed ; im.put.ing [ME inputen, fr. L imputare, fr. in- + putare to consider] (14c) 1: to lay the responsibility or blame for often falsely or unjustly
2: to credit to a person or a cause: attribute "our vices as well as our virtues have been imputed to bodily derangement --B. N. Cardozo" syn see ascribe -- im.put.abil.i.ty n -- im.put.able adj