1.  impute(v = verb.cognition) ascribe, assign, attribute - attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
is one way to evaluate, judge, pass judgment
Derived form noun imputation₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something to somebody; Somebody ----s something PP

2.  impute(v = verb.cognition) - attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source; "The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness"
is one way to ascribe, assign, attribute, impute
Derived form noun imputation₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something to somebody; Somebody ----s something PP

1.  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. [1913 Webster]
"Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault,
If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise." [1913 Webster]
"One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him -- envy." [1913 Webster]

2.  To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us. [1913 Webster]
"It was imputed to him for righteousness." [1913 Webster]
"They merit
Imputed shall absolve them who renounce
Their own, both righteous and unrighteous deeds." [1913 Webster]

3.  To take account of; to consider; to regard. [1913 Webster]
"If we impute this last humiliation as the cause of his death."

impute, v.tr. (foll. by to)
1 regard (esp. something undesirable) as being done or caused or possessed by.
2 Theol. ascribe (righteousness, guilt, etc.) to (a person) by virtue of a similar quality in another.

Derivative:
imputable adj. imputation n. imputative adj.

Etymology:
ME f. OF imputer f. L imputare enter in the account (as IN-(2), putare reckon)

VB  accuse, charge, tax, impute, twit, taunt with, reproach, brand with reproach, stigmatize, slur, cast a stone at, cast a slur on, incriminate, criminate, inculpate, implicate, call to account, take to blame, take to task, put in the black book, inform against, indict, denounce, arraign, impeach, appeach, have up, show up, pull up, challenge, cite, lodge a complaint, prosecute, bring an action against, blow upon, charge with, saddle with, lay to one's door, lay charge, lay the blame on, bring home to, cast in one's teeth, throw in one's teeth, cast the first stone at, have a rod in pickle for, keep a rod in pickle for, have a crow to pluck with, trump up a charge.