No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion. From LearnThat.org. [Cicero, Roman orator, statesman, philosopher and writer.]
Though I don't use the word impute too often its etymology is in some ways consistent with the answer to David's question. From Wordnik.com. [podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history] Reference
Jumping back to Samuel Johnson's word impute, its meaning was to subtract from that same metaphorical balance sheet. about podictionary. From Wordnik.com. [podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history] Reference
We make or "impute" these mental abstractions all the time. From Wordnik.com. [The Mechanism of Karma: The Mahayana Presentation, Except for Gelug Prasangika ��� Session Three: The Aftermath of Karma] Reference
Based on that sequence, as a manner of speaking, we say or "impute" that there is a habit of drinking tea. From Wordnik.com. [Basic Questions on Karma and Rebirth] Reference
Say people "impute" 'em, and show thou art pension'd. From Wordnik.com. [Gossip in a Library] Reference
In 2001, the ONS has admitted that it had to "impute" information for 6.1 per cent of households who failed to fill in the forms - more than 1. 5million families. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Lawyers for the network also read out a written apology - signed by executive director Jeffery Browne - stating they had no intention to "impute" that Dr Alberti was a liar. From Wordnik.com. [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
I by no means mean to impute any wrong motive to the. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
We impute to him no fault for this sort of incompetence. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
We impute no motives to the honoured men who hold the doctrine. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election] Reference
"I didn't mean to impute anything to your character," he said, mildly. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Some of them go so far as groundlessly to impute sheer hypocrisy to Racine. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Quick is fittingly named, for he is awfully hasty to impute bad faith to us. From Wordnik.com. [Heads I Win, Tails You Lose] Reference
I should impute the defect to her mentality instead of to her character, alas!. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference
I would also respectfully suggest that anonymous correspondents should not impute. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
I am quite sure that none of us would impute ill intent to the French authorities. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
"There are some, however, who impute a selfish desire for political power to his work.". From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
He excuses that to you, which another would impute; and if you pardon him, is satisfied. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Venoni whom Josepha preferred to me, this Venoni to whom alone I impute my disappointment. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
Tell me, is it just to impute an unhappy accident to people who no ways contributed towards it?. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
Old Jephthah looked wordless contempt at the nephew who knew little enough to impute such a course to him. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
That being the case, it would follow of necessity that some people would impute to her a willingness to recant. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
No matter, said I; I declare to you, that if such a misfortune befal me, I will not impute it to you, but to myself. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
The Marchaunt lesyng his marchaundise by ship - wrack, shall thei impute the daunger and losse, to their wife at home?. From Wordnik.com. [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference
He shook his head deprecatingly, and waved his arms as if to disclaim any evil motives which they might impute to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
Whatever the American people may think about the policy of the Federalists, they will not impute to them unpatriotic designs. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
My foolishness and my offences ... which my enemies impute to me: or the follies and sins of men, which I have taken upon myself. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
It is, therefore, to the extraordinary means used for my detection that I impute my defeat, rather than to any bungling of my own. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
Gentlemen, I beg to be understood in what I am now about to say, as not intending to impute any thing wrong to Government or to the Stock. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814] Reference
Consuello's words, "Why must we always impute a misconceived motive?" the question she had asked when they had discussed those who doubted. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
Things come to have a distinct individuality, almost a personality, and we unconsciously impute to them a response to our feeling for them. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
When I had finished, he rose angrily: "What, wretch!" he exclaimed, "dost thou even dare to impute a crime which thou hast committed from greediness to another?". From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2] Reference
We must impute our getting off thus well to our keeping so near that they overshot us, and to the annoyance our grape shot gave them; they are, however, but wretched gunners. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
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