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| Main Entry: | ascribe1 |
| Part of Speech: | v |
| Definition: | to infer or conjecture ownership; to consider as belonging to |
| Etymology: | Latin ad- + scribere 'to write' |
| Usage: | transitive; used with to |
| Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.7) Copyright © 2003-2008 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC |
Ascribe
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| Main Entry: | ascribe2 |
| Part of Speech: | v |
| Definition: | to attribute to a cause or source |
| Etymology: | Latin ad- + scribere 'to write' |
| Usage: | transitive; used with to |
| Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.7) Copyright © 2003-2008 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC |
| Main Entry: | ascribe3 |
| Part of Speech: | v |
| Definition: | to write into; to add in writing |
| Etymology: | Latin ad- + scribere 'to write' |
| Usage: | transitive; used with to |
| Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.7) Copyright © 2003-2008 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC |
| Main Entry: | ascribe4 |
| Part of Speech: | v |
| Definition: | to count; to enter into an account |
| Etymology: | Latin ad- + scribere 'to write' |
| Usage: | transitive; used with to |
| Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.7) Copyright © 2003-2008 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC |
as·cribe 
Audio Help [uh-skrahyb] Pronunciation Key
Audio Help [uh-skrahyb] Pronunciation Key –verb (used with object), -cribed, -crib·ing.
| 1. | to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute: The alphabet is usually ascribed to the Phoenicians. |
| 2. | 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. |
| Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006. |
| as·cribe
Audio Help (ə-skrīb') Pronunciation Key
tr.v. as·cribed, as·crib·ing, as·cribes
[Middle English ascriben, from Old French ascrivre, from Latin ascrībere : ad-, ad- + scrībere, to write; see skrībh- in Indo-European roots.] a·scrib'a·ble adj. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
ascribe
16c. restored spelling of M.E. ascrive (c.1340), from O.Fr. ascrivre "to attribute, inscribe," from L. ascribere "to write in, to add to in a writing," from ad- "to" + scribere "to write" (see script).
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| ascribe | |
verb | |
| attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" [syn: impute] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
ascribe [əˈskraib] verb
to think of as done or caused by someone or something
Example: He ascribed his success to the help of his friends.
Example: He ascribed his success to the help of his friends.
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
Ascribe
Ad"script\, a. [L. adscriptus, p. p. of adscribere to enroll. See Ascribe.] Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
ascribe
ascribe was Word of the Day on August 7, 1999.
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