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• impute — transitive verb (imputed; imputing) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French imputer, from Latin imputare, from in + putare to consider Date: 14th century 1. to lay the responsibility or blame for often falsely or unjustly 2. to credit to a… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• impute — v 1. accuse, charge, challenge, allege, assert, cite, implicate, incriminate, criminate, Obs., Rare. accriminate; point to, set down to, lay at the door of, saddle with, father upon, account for, call to or hold in account; arraign, impeach,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• Plato: metaphysics and epistemology — Robert Heinaman METAPHYSICS The Theory of Forms Generality is the problematic feature of the world that led to the development of Plato’s Theory of Forms and the epistemological views associated with it.1 This pervasive fact of generality appears …   History of philosophy

• Guenter Lewy — (born 1923, Germany) is an author and historian, and a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts. His works span several topics, but he is most often associated with his book on the Vietnam War and works that deal …   Wikipedia

• United States defamation law — The origins of United States defamation law pre date the American Revolution; one famous 1734 case involving John Peter Zenger established some precedent that the truth should be an absolute defense against libel charges. (Previous English… …   Wikipedia

• The Staunton-Morphy controversy — concerns the failure of negotiations in 1858 for a chess match between Howard Staunton and Paul Morphy and later interpretations of the actions of the two players. The details of the events are not universally agreed, and accounts and… …   Wikipedia

• arrogate — v 1.(all in reference to oneself) assume, appropriate, claim, avail oneself of, help oneself to, make free with; seize, take, commandeer, expropriate, usurp, confiscate. 2.(all in reference to another; all falsely or unjustly) impute, ascribe,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• asperse — v 1. slander, libel, traduce, calumniate, falsify, accuse falsely, misrepresent, belie, impute, insinuate; injure, abuse, assail, stab, insult, backbite, Sl. badmouth, cast aspersions, attack; slur, sully, defile, smear, smirch, besmirch, soil,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• backbite — v 1. defame, denigrate, vilify, vituperate, vilipend, scandalize, run down; berate, impugn, revile, blackguard, malign, gibbet, criticize, pull to pieces, Sl. do a hatchet job on, give a bad name, speak ill of, speak evil of, Sl. badmouth, gossip …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• brand — n 1. make, kind, type, sort, class, line; grade, quality. 2. trademark, stamp, label, name; symbol, sign, representation, seal, marker; identification, tab, tag, earmark; insignia, ensign, sigil, signet, badge, crest, emblem; motto, catch phrase …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• calumniate — v 1. slander, libel, impute, asperse, insinuate, traduce, falsify, accuse falsely, misrepresent, belie; injure, abuse, assail, stab, insult, backbite, Sl. badmouth, engage in personalities; slur, sully, defile, smear, smirch, besmirch, soil,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder