Synonyms:
impute, ascribe, assign, attribute
Meaning: attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
Usage examples
I do not mean to impute
That fast To virtue I impute not, or count part Of what I suffer here.
Let us, then, impute to the fatality of things alone these formidable collisions.
"I have to examine myself, and find out whether I am guilty of the meanness which I might perhaps be too ready to impute to another. I have done so, and I am quite sure that I am not drawn to your sister by any desire for her money.
Humanity will draw a veil over this part of her character which it cannot approve, and may perhaps prompt some to impute her actions to her situation more than to her dispositions; and to lament the unhappiness of the former, rather than accuse the perverseness of the latter.