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imputable, a.|ɪmˈpjuːtəb(ə)l|
[ad. med.L. imputābilis, f. imputāre to impute: see -ble. Cf. F. imputable (Oresme, 14th c.).]
1. That may be imputed to or assigned to the account of; chargeable, attributable.
1626Jackson Creed viii. xxvii. §5 The errour is imputable onely to the Transcriber or Interpreter, not to the author. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. Introd. (1848) 29 Apologies..for the Imperfections imputable to this Treatise. 1780T. Jefferson Corr. Wks. 1859 I. 271 Their being exposed..to a want of covering, would be imputable to themselves only. 1845Ld. Campbell Chancellors cxii. (1857) V. 217 No blame is imputable to him. 1880Muirhead Gaius iv. §163 note, Damages, the amount of the pursuer's loss imputable to the defender.
†2. Liable to imputation; open to accusation or censure; blameworthy, reprehensible, culpable. Cf. impute v. 3. Obs.
1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. i. ii, There being nothing that can render an action culpable or imputable [etc.]. 1710Shaftesbury Charact. ii. ii. i. (1737) II. 120 Some justly blameable and imputable Act. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 58 The law deems her to be a dutiful wife..in no wise imputable. 1784J. Barry in Lect. Paint. iv. (1848) 162 This fault..is hardly imputable, as it was not committed through ignorance but by election.
Hence imˈputableness, the quality of being imputable; imˈputably adv., in a way that is imputable or chargeable with fault.
1678Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 298 'Tis necessary to imputableness of an Action, that it be avoidable. 1710― Chr. Prud. vii. 327 A man may sin by following his conscience..and that too imputably, if it was mistaken for want of care to inform it better. |