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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb ascribe has 1 sense
- ascribe(v = verb.cognition) assign, attribute, impute - attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" is one way to evaluate, judge, pass judgment
Derived forms adjective ascribable1, noun ascription2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s something PP
CIDE DICTIONARY
ascribe, v. t. [L. ascribere, adscribere, to ascribe; ad + scribere to write: cf. OF. ascrire. See Scribe.].
- To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author. [1913 Webster]"The finest [speech] that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem." [1913 Webster]
- To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or allege to belong. [1913 Webster]"More than good-will to me attribute naught." [1913 Webster]"Ascribes his gettings to his parts and merit." [1913 Webster]"And fairly quit him of the imputed blame." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ascribe, v.tr. (usu. foll. by to)
1 attribute or impute (ascribes his well-being to a sound constitution).
2 regard as belonging.
1 attribute or impute (ascribes his well-being to a sound constitution).
2 regard as belonging.
Derivative
ascribable adj.
Etymology
ME f. L ascribere (as AD-, scribere script- write)
THESAURUS
ascribe
accredit, adduce, advance, affix, allege, apply, assign, attach, attach to, attribute, charge, cite, conjecture, connect with, credit, fasten, fix, give, guess, impute, lay, pin on, place, put, refer, saddle, surmise
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