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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.
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Ascribe
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Example Sentences
- Climate change researchers are hesitant to ascribe a single cause for the warming, but they agree it's happening.
- Perhaps you should not be so quick to ascribe motives.
- Article makes a good point, it's foolish to ascribe one reason to such a complex and often non-economic decision.
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Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon
| 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 |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
ascribe
mid-14c., ascrive, 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). Spelling restored 16c.
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