imputable
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Etymology edit
Adjective edit
imputable
- 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.
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Translations edit
capable 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 edit
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imputable (plural imputables)
Further reading edit
- “imputable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
imputable m or f (masculine and feminine plural imputables)
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Further reading edit
- “imputable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014