imputable en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English impute Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English imputable From impute + -able.
Meanings
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That may be imputed
No one having previously heard his history, could for the first time behold Father Mapple without the utmost interest, because there were certain engrafted clerical peculiarities about him, imputable to that adventurous maritime life he had led.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 8, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- Accusable; culpable; chargeable with fault.
Deriveds
Relateds
impute · imputability · imputation · imputableness · imputably
Synonyms
chargeable · referable · ascribable · attributable
Translations (8)
pt imputável (capable of being imputed) · pt acusável (capable of being imputed) · it incriminabile (capable of being imputed) · af toegereken (capable of being imputed) · es imputable (capable of being imputed) · af torekeningsvatbaar (culpable) · ca imputable (capable of being imputed) · fr imputable (capable of being imputed)