ascribe

[ad_1] verb (used with object), as·cribed, as·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.

verb (tr)

1. to credit or assign, as to a particular origin or periodto ascribe parts of a play to Shakespeare
2. to attribute as a quality; consider as belonging toto ascribe beauty to youth

v.

mid-14c., ascrive, from Old French ascrivre “to inscribe; attribute, impute,” from Latin ascribere “to write in, to add to in a writing,” from ad- “to” (see ad-) + scribere “to write” (see script (n.)). Spelling restored by 16c. Related: Ascribed; ascribing.

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