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ascribe
[ uh-skrahyb ]
verb (used with object)
- to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute:
The alphabet is usually ascribed to the Phoenicians.
- to attribute or think of as belonging, as a quality or characteristic:
They ascribed courage to me for something I did out of sheer panic.
ascribe
/ əˈskraɪb /
verb
- to credit or assign, as to a particular origin or period
to ascribe parts of a play to Shakespeare
- to attribute as a quality; consider as belonging to
to ascribe beauty to youth
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Derived Forms
- asˈcribable, adjective
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Other Words From
- a·scriba·ble adjective
- unas·cribed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ascribe1
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Example Sentences
Different boycotters will ascribe different meanings to the same act.
The mother would ascribe some of his courage to him having been a Marine for eight years.
Yet neither expressed any interest in the legend that so many people want to ascribe to the man.
To the contrary, they ascribe to the belief that more guns on campus, in the hands of the right people, will make them safer.
All they have to do is attribute or ascribe as much income as possible to foreign subsidiaries.
In early English literature there was at one time a tendency to ascribe to Solomon various proverbs not in the Bible.
Cobdenites ascribe every known or imagined improvement in commerce, and the condition of the masses, to Free Trade.
Consequently, we could not ascribe these deaths to a desire for plunder on the part of some unknown person.
The short delay of my answer, you must ascribe on this occasion not to lazyness but to despondency.
What then are the musical forms to which Plato and Aristotle ascribe this remarkable efficacy?
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