imputable

adj — 2 senses

imputable

adj

Etymology From impute + -able.

1

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:
2

Law Accusable; culpable; chargeable with fault.

Derived terms
unimputable
Related terms
imputability, imputableness, imputably, imputation, impute

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