ascribe
[uh-skrahyb]
verb (used with object), as·cribed, as·crib·ing.
to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute: The alphabet is usually ascribed to the Phoenicians.
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.
Origin of ascribe
Synonym study
1. See attribute.
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Related Words for ascribable
detectable, identifiable, attributable, trackable, accountable, derivative, verifiable, ascribable, referableExamples from the Web for ascribable
Historical Examples of ascribable
Are these miraculous revelations that we hear of ascribable to evil influences?
Gerald FitzgeraldCharles James Lever
Perhaps to some extent this is ascribable to the influence of the genius loci.
A Civil Servant in BurmaHerbert Thirkel White
Who could say whether his silence were ascribable to the absence of danger, or to his own absence?
Wieland; or The TransformationCharles Brockden Brown
They are not ascribable to the purely intellectual movement alone, though it is no doubt an essential factor.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I.Leslie Stephen
The third portion, or epilogue, appears to be ascribable chiefly to the genial love of Homer for the horse.
Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3W. E. Gladstone
ascribe
verb (tr)
Word Origin for ascribe
C15: from Latin ascrībere to enrol, from ad in addition + scrībere to write
usage
Ascribe is sometimes wrongly used where subscribe is meant: I do not subscribe (not ascribe) to this view
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