| 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. |
as·cribe (ə-skrīb') 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |