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ascription
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ascription has 2 senses
- ascription(n = noun.cognition) attribution - assigning some quality or character to a person or thing; "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription to me of honors I had not earned" is a kind of categorisation, categorization, classification, sorting
- ascription(n = noun.cognition) attribution - assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso" is a kind of categorisation, categorization, classification, sorting
has particulars: zoomorphism
has particulars: animatism, imputation, externalisation, externalization
Derived form verb ascribe1
CIDE DICTIONARY
ascription, n. [L. ascriptio, fr. ascribere. See Ascribe.].
The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ascription, n.
1 the act or an instance of ascribing.
2 a preacher's words ascribing praise to God at the end of a sermon.
1 the act or an instance of ascribing.
2 a preacher's words ascribing praise to God at the end of a sermon.
Etymology
L ascriptio -onis (as ASCRIBE)
ROGET THESAURUS
ascription
Attribution
N attribution, theory, etiology, ascription, reference to, rationale, accounting for, palaetiology, imputation, derivation from, filiation, affiliation, pedigree, explanation, reason why, attributed, attributable, referable to, referrible to, due to, derivable from, owing to, putative, ecbatic, hence, thence, therefore, for, since, on account of, because, owing to, on that account, from this cause, from that cause, thanks to, forasmuch as, whence, propter hoc, why? wherefore? whence? how comes it, how is it, how happens it? how does it happen? in some way, in some such way, somehow, somehow or other, that is why, hinc illae lachrymae.
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