different between impute vs beguilt

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French imputer, from Latin imput? (“to bring into the reckoning, charge, impute”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?pju?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Verb

impute (third-person singular simple present imputes, present participle imputing, simple past and past participle imputed)

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

   Synonyms: attribute, insinuate, charge, imply
2. (transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
3. (transitive) To take into account.

   Synonyms: consider, regard, reckon
4. (transitive) To attribute or credit to.

   Synonyms: attribute, ascribe, assign
5. (transitive, statistics) To replace missing data with substituted values.

Related terms

Translations

References

• impute in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• impute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• uptime

French

Verb

impute

1. first-person singular present indicative of imputer
2. third-person singular present indicative of imputer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of imputer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of imputer
5. second-person singular imperative of imputer

Portuguese

Verb

impute

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of imputar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of imputar
3. first-person singular imperative of imputar
4. third-person singular imperative of imputar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [im?pute]

Verb

impute

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of imputa
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of imputa

Spanish

Verb

impute

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of imputar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of imputar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of imputar.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English begilten, equivalent to be- +? guilt.

Verb

beguilt (third-person singular simple present beguilts, present participle beguilting, simple past and past participle beguilted)

1. (transitive) To make guilty; cause to sin.
2. (transitive) To impute with guilt or fault; blame; accuse.
   • 1895, Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga library:

     […] for they deemed that he was long-grudging, even in lesser matters than those wherein Kalf had done to beguilt him with the king.

   • 1911, William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris:

     […] and albeit Einar were old, yet he threw himself into this case, and beguilted the sons of Thorgrim to the full at the Thorsness-thing.

Etymology 2

From begild.

Verb

beguilt

1. Alternative form of begilt