impute, ascribe, assign, attribute (verb)

attribute or credit to

"We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"

impute (verb)

attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source

"The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness"

impute (Verb)

To reckon as pertaining or attributable; to charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense.

impute (Verb)

To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.

impute (Verb)

To take account of; to consider; to regard.

impute (Verb)

To attribute or credit to.

impute (Verb)

To attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.