ascribe
verb (used with object)
to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Perhaps after all I am ascribing to system what is mere accident.
From Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 by Sir George Otto Trevelyan