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Bold; forward; aggressive.

The quality of being imputable; imputableness.

That may be imputed; capable of being imputed; chargeable; ascribable; attributable; referable. A prince whose political vices, at least, were imputable to mental incapacity. Prescott.

Quality of being imputable.

By imputation.

The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription; also, anything imputed or charged. Shylock. Antonio is a good man. Bassanio. Have you heard any imputation to the contrary Shak. If I had a suit to Master Shallow, I would humor his men with the imputation of being near their master. Shak.

Transferred by imputation; that may be imputed. -- Im*put"a*tive*ly, adv. Actual righteousness as well as imputative. Bp. Warburton.

, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise. Gray. One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him -- envy. Macaulay.

One who imputes.

Not putrescible.

Not computable.

Indisputableness.

Not disputable; incontrovertible; too evident to admit of dispute.

Undisputed.

Disreputable. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy. "Laputan ideas." G. Eliot.

One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift's "Voyage to Lilliput."

A species of civet; the zoril.

Erroneous computation; false reckoning.

To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne.