different between impute vs impure

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

From Middle French impur, from Latin impurus

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)

Adjective

impure (comparative more impure, superlative most impure)

1. Not pure
   1. Containing undesired intermixtures

      The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out.

   2. Unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin
   3. Unchaste; obscene (not according to or not abiding by some system of sexual morality)

      He was thinking impure thoughts involving a girl from school.

      • 2012, Frederick Ramsay, The Eighth Veil: A Jerusalem Mystery

        “No one would marry her if she was impure, don't you see?” “Impure? Surely if a woman is forcibly deprived of her virginity, she can't be thought of as impure.”

Synonyms

• imperfect, tainted

Antonyms

• pure

Related terms

• impuration
• impurely
• impureness
• impurify
• impurity

Translations

Verb

impure (third-person singular simple present impures, present participle impuring, simple past and past participle impured)

1. (transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute

References

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

Anagrams

• rumpie, umpire

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.py?/
• Rhymes: -y?

Adjective

impure

1. feminine singular of impur

Italian

Adjective

impure f pl

1. feminine plural of impuro

Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

imp?r? (comparative imp?rius, superlative imp?rissim?)

1. basely, shamefully, infamously
2. impurely

Etymology 2

Adjective

imp?re

1. vocative masculine singular of imp?rus

References

• impure in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• impure in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• impure in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette