Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To regard as arising from a specified cause or source: synonym: attribute.
- transitive verb To regard as belonging to or produced by a specified agent, place, or time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To add in writing; append (one's name) to a document, etc.; subscribe.
- To inscribe or dedicate.
- To enroll or register.
- To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause or source; assign; set down: as, losses are often to be ascribed to imprudence.
- To attribute, as a quality or an appurtenance; consider or allege to belong.
- Synonyms Attribute, Refer, etc. See
attribute .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause
- transitive verb To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or allege to belong.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something. - verb transitive To
attribute a book, painting or any work of art or literature to a writer or creator.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb attribute or credit to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Do you as a Born Again ascribe to the “scriptures” that the sons of Ham are cursed with black skin?
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What he means by that is when some work or action is ascribed to someone the word ascribe is chosen because we are happy about whatever the story entails.
history Charles Hodgson 2010
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What he means by that is when some work or action is ascribed to someone the word ascribe is chosen because we are happy about whatever the story entails.
podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history 2010
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David asked about the word ascribe which literally means "to write."
podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history 2010
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David asked about the word ascribe which literally means "to write."
history Charles Hodgson 2010
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Despite my increasingly regrettable jest, I'm actually aware that people are rarely hold the cartoonish views that single-word labels ascribe to them.
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But both terms ascribe a kind of grandeur to the Bush proposal that it lacks.
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And I'm just telling you, I did my duty, and it's politics, you know, to kind of ascribe all kinds of motives to me.
~ Angry Bear 2004
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Give -- or, "ascribe" (De 32: 3). mighty -- or, "sons of the mighty" (Ps 89: 6).
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Give -- or, "ascribe" (Ps 29: 1) due honor to Him, by acts of appointed and solemn worship in His house.
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