Meanings
- 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, →OCLCSynonyms: chargeable, ascribable, attributable, referable
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveThat may be imputed
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivecapable of being assigned or credited to
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Afrikaans toegereken, torekeningsvatbaar
- toegerekencapable of being imputed
- torekeningsvatbaarculpable
Catalan imputable
- imputablecapable of being imputed
French imputable
- imputablecapable of being imputed
Italian incriminabile
- incriminabilecapable of being imputed
Portuguese imputável, acusável
- imputávelcapable of being imputed
- acusávelcapable of being imputed
Spanish imputable
- imputablecapable of being imputed
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