imputable
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editimputable
- That may be imputed
- Synonyms: chargeable, ascribable, attributable, referable
- 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:
- 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.
- (law) Accusable; culpable; chargeable with fault.
Related terms
editTranslations
editcapable of being imputed
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culpable
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References
edit- “imputable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “imputable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French
editEtymology
editPronunciation
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Adjective
editimputable (plural imputables)
Further reading
edit- “imputable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editimputable m or f (masculine and feminine plural imputables)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “imputable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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